Everyone knows that pious ladies whose father had taught them to read Hebrew would put on Tefillin until a few centuries ago. In the Sefaradi world and in isolated communities one may have found them until relatively recently (a couple of centuries? three?) Shall we deduce from it that the ladies of the wall are just fine and following a mesora R”L? When Moshiach comes, he will give us detailed instructions, for the time being we are taught we follow our fathers, not our grand-grand-grand-grandfathers.
I still do not understand why kitniyot make any difference to a religious Askhenazi who is invited in the home of a religious Sefaradi.
DaasYochid: do I remember correctly about Moshiach doing exactly that, pasken according to Ben Shammai? Yet again, until he shows up, we are not concerned.