What was it the Sanzer Rav z’l said about those who like to do things “because thats how it was done in the heim” and not because “thats vas shtait”, thast eventually people would be shlugging kapparos with an esrog?
Minhag avoseinu is nothing to be taken lightly. RavYackov Kamenetzky Z’l was once asked which minhag he follows by havdala, to recite it standing or sitting and he replied “my fathers minhag”.