Ubiquitin – you have a good point if in fact it is a “silly sheilah”. On the other hand, my feeling from reading the post is that it might not actually be such a silly sheilah and the OP himself doesn’t seem to think so (or he wouldn’t feel such a need to discuss it with more than one Rav).
I think that when he wrote that it’s a “silly sheilah”, he meant it in a self- deprecating way, coming from the realization that the Gedolim are so much greater than we are, and we should appreciate the fact that when we ask them sheilahs we are taking away from their valuable time, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t ask (after thinking carefully if this is a sheilah for a Gadol or a LOR or someone in between).
I think it is important to ask sheilahs to Gedolim sometimes rather than to LOR’s, and I get the impression from things posters have written at times that there are too many people going to LOR’s when they should be going to Gedolim (or at least Rabbanim who are greater than the ones they are going to).
Note: I’m not disagreeing with you on principle. I’m just pointing out that it may or may not apply to this case.