I was reading over Hakatan’s comment. I don’t see where he denigrated Rav Willig. I see he differentiated YU from REITe and he does not hold YU in high regard. He also, correctly, stated that Rav Willig was not mastoid as a YU representative, rather as a close neighbor and local Rov in whose shul the RY gave shouting and encouraged and increased the amount and level of learning. Which is what Rav Willig said in his hesped. As well as specifically thanking Rav Ausband, the Rebbitzen and the Ausband children for the tremendous impression they had on the Willig children.
What I do see are the YU crowd up in arms about Hakatan’s opinion of YU and then completely misrepresenting what Hakatan said because they cannot argue with what he actually wrote.