Chumros becoming mainstream aren’t a problem- it’s simply a radical cultural shift that’s happened in the past hundred years, especially post-holocaust. Chareidi society is obsessed with chumros, seeing the kol korehs, bans, and cherems these days.
I don’t like your tone. Have you learned the Sugyos relating to shmiras haloshon, ahavas yisroel, and hocheach tocheach? You have an attitude I despise- one that cares about Halacha superficially, while still managing to be mean-spirited and insulting.
Mesorah doesn’t begin and end 100 years ago, that’s just the last line in the mesorah before us, so I care what used to happen.
I did sloppily use the word minhagim, However, most of the things I mentioned WERE NOT mainstream Halacha, as I proved and you acknowledged.
All I’m saying is that the romanticizing of Europe, and the claim that Halacha today is the same as it was before is inaccurate.
And by the way, when the daughter of the minchas Elazar married rav Baruch Rabinowitz, it was attended by thousands and televised. You can find the video online!