Wolf – I’m sorry you took my phrasing as a personal attack. It was not meant so. I would use the same term to describe myself or any other member of this generation in comparison to the sages of generations prior. It would behoove us to remember this when we think that something they did “does not make sense to us”.
I have yet to hear someone read a page of Einstein, lehavdil, and announce that he made a mistake. Even people who read the whole paper often have no intelligent comments to make. Passing judgement on a minhag or halacha is far more ludicrous.