blueprints:
a) No one disagrees that they were a minority for the reasons you mentioned.
b) Why?
c) Though they were a minority, as we already agreed on, they were far from the ony three.
popa: They do accomplish the same objective; limmud hatorah. If that isn’t the objective then says so.
I, for example, go to college. I think it’s better to learn 3-5 hours a day and go to college (and waste time on the coffeeroom) the rest than to learn 3-5 hours a day and spend the rest batteling and talking lashon hara because there’s nothing else to do in yeshiva.