Avira> Chasidus, much like a mussar seder, is for 30 minutes to an hour
Maybe we shouldn’t mix these together? True they historically came in response to a perceived disconnect between traditional elite learning and every person’s need to deal modernity, the actual effect is through different pathways. The first approach has the dangers we are discussing here of being swept up by esoteric concepts skipping the basics, while mussar is grounding a person with work on his middos. The only danger here is like R Naftoli Amsterdam who was dressing like a shlepper disregarding his wife’s wishes