cherrybim, That doesn’t change my quoted position.
And to reverse your example, take for instance the Shomrei Emumim Rebbe or any of the Toldos Aharon and Toldos Avrohom Yitchok Rebbes, they the are not recognized and even denigrated by the MO world, yet they are true tzadikim and g’dolei torah, second to none.
Do you dispute that? What gives you (or if not you then other MO people) more right to do so, then the Yeshivisha/Chasidesha velt has to not agree with your characterizations and designations of the Yeshiva University Rabbis?
Just because someone is a (or even “the”) leader of YU, doesn’t bestow upon him the title of Godol. Vi shteit az the yeshivisha velt must recognize Rabbi ABC (fill in the blank) of YU as a Godol? Usually the YU Rabbis take any number of positions that the Chareidi community know as incompatible with that of a Godol. And who says that Rabbi ABC of YU is any more of a Godol than the Rosh Yeshiva of, say, Yeshivas Derech Chaim in Brooklyn (a true tzadik and godol like many other Roshei Yeshivos in Brooklyn and elsewhere)?
So the point remains that the true “leaders of Klal Yisroel” are truly recognized as such across the board. It is “just” simply works out like that through their gadlus, and always has worked out like that.