Do you really think that our “gedolim” are on the level of Moshe Rabbenu?!
Actually they are not.Not even close.Moshe was a rea leader of Klal Yisroel.People actually listened to him. Today we have gedolim in torah but not in leadership and people in America def dont listen to them so they are not our leaders.Please tell me the last time you followed a gadol’s psak against the internet,cell phones,way of dress,not working,etc,etc?
The Gaon was a huge tzaddik but it also doesnt make sense just to follow him over the baal shem tov.The way yeshivas learn today and teach Hashkfah(minus Emunah) is not the way the Vilna Gaon had planned.Even in Volizhin they learned a daf a day with rishonim.We made up our own system though.