Rainus: I feel bad for you that you have run out constructive points to make and must resort to attempts at personal insults. The topic of discussion was largely based on conflict between “minhag hamakom” and “minhag avos”. If one does NOT have any minhag avos there would be NO heter to violate minhag hamakom.
If your family was originally from Stolin then they were never Ashkenazim/German Jews, rather they were Litvaks. So you have not “returned my family to the way of Ashkenaz”, as minhag Lita has many significant differences from minhag Ashkenaz.
I am shocked by your rant against the “kabbalistic bandwagon”. Are you aware that the Magan Avraham and many other Gedolei HaAchronim quote extensively from kisvei haArizal and their words are nearly unanimously accepted by all Ashkenazi Jews and have been for many hundreds of years.