@sechel83, So it sounds like we agree that litfaks today in many ways are chasdish.
I also think your defintion of chasidish is very narrow based (Mostly the chabad based) Your defintion that its about the mindset , “penemis Hatorah” etc. and that its almost an intellectual mindset approach is too narrow. Being chasdish is also about a feel for judaism vs doing this robotically because it says in the torah. That means a few things. Firtsly, doing a mitzvah with a fire and happyiness. Whether its davening or lighting a menora or shaking luluav. We don’t just light a m enora and go back to the germara. We dance and farbriegan plus learn a little by the menora. Thats not so much an intellectual aspect rather its just a physcal connection where you ” enjoy” the mitzva because its part of our life and isn’t just a book a of codes. Its also about kedusha and being extra tznuis, because its not just a book of codes rather its about living for something higher we strive to observe more than just the halcha. The same is about kashrus. Pure halacha perhaps allows cholov stam. But we can do better and be more stringent. Many chasdim only ate meat from their shochet or ruv. Again they live for a higher being and its a way of life vs just a book of rules lehavdil. All this, is to say its more than just an intllectual exercise. Perhaps the earlier seforim and chabad focus on that but once you get to rebas of 150 years ago like the Tsanzer ruv or Belza it;s focus isn’t about the deep thinking rather its more about a way of life that’s more inetrnalized.