Dear Arso,
Satmar was a low key devout group that focused on positive exposure to wayward yidden. You can still detect this trait in their drashos. But it is laughable to even think about Satmar today as driven to be low key.
Gur in Europe was all in on Chassidus. Seclusion, intense Torah and Tefillah. Then tit was dropped for community building. Then it was dropped for kedushah. Then they remade their yeshivos. And now they are at it again. I’m waiting to see what is next.
Sanz is not from the Baal Shem. It is not even two hundred years old. Yet The Divrei Chaim’s many descendants may make up half of all the Rebbes in the world. Kein Yirbu. I don’t know what it is about their style, but the sons seem to move along with the conditions around them. Groups that were designed to be held together, soon split. Groups that were designed to rely on their own, soon integrate. I think this is good for the larger Jewish Community. But it obscures the leadership and vision of the original scion.
IN Lubavitch The Baal Hatanya and all the Rebbes’ voices still ring. Much like previous Rosh Yeshivos in Mir or Ponvezh. Or the GR”A and his Talmidim.