“According to “Hasidism,” however, Shapiro “agreed with many of the critiques of Hasidism as a movement that lost its original spirit and animating mysticism, becoming instead a rigid social framework devoid of any vitality.”
It seems Satmar has a similar line “Nishtakcha Toras haBaal Shem Tov.”.
The Rebbe completely disagreed and its not applicable to Chabad which is more of an mystical ideology than anything else…