The Baal Shem Tov wrote that the purpose of Chassidus was to rid the world of the ‘baise Lamdan’- talmidei chachamim who would be angry and unpleasant to people.
The Baal Shem Tov saw that learning and mitsvos was much greater when done with simcha- for everyone, whether learned or ignorant. Especially the kalte Litvak needs fixing, and that is still true today.
Chassidus was certainly not designed ‘just for the ignorant’. It was to lift up everyone’s avoda. Even the smallest should remember that ‘H-shem is with you wherever you are’- but equally, chassidus it to remind the greatest talmidei chachamim that they have far to go to reach H-shem. In chassidus even if you’re a kalte Litvak, you can became a varme Yid (warm jew)!
From a Breslov Chassid in Yerushalayim