My point is “Schmutz Addiction” is greatly exaggerated and if you listen or watch to Pesach Krohns speech you will get to the real issue of the internet. He and many others do not like blogs that critize, some critisim is unwarranted but some isnt. Criticism for the sake of critism is bad. But Constructive Critism could be a good thing
The other thing that I think is an issue, is “New Stuff”. I used to know a Rav who would only sing Niggunim he knew in Europe, didnt matter where the new Niggun came from, he refused to sing it. In pre-war Hungary many did not even use buttons because they were “New” (They used Draw string shirts).
Many yeshivas are against Art Scroll Gemorah because they are New and have english, so if someone would have SHAS on an iPad they would still be against it and insist you use a traditional Gemorah.
But they cant say these things, so they say Schmutz . Schumtz Schmutz.
Its very easy to condemn schmutz as most people really arent for it.