NOTPASHUT,
You said:
“I am not saying & never said that everyone has to listen to chareidi Gedolim. I happen to believe that anyone who doesn’t is mistaken, but that is just my opinion – everyone else can do whatever they want”
If this was honestly the way most of the black hat chareidim thought you would be right, however you know as well as i do that as a general rule they dont think like this.
You know as well as I do that they dont consider the rabbonim who lead both the M.O. Y.U. or mizrachi communitys to be gedolim (most of them feel the same way about chabad leaders also!) and alot of them routinley call the leaders of these movements apikorsim and minim among other things.