Chabad bochurim learn all the same Achronim that everyone else does. Only yesterday I saw on a desk in a Chabad Yeshiva – Shiurei R’ Asher Arieli on Pesachim, and the owner a Chabad yungerman had gone through it and written notes on it. (As an aside Chayei Odom and Chosmas Adam is quoted many times by the Tzemach Tzedek .) The Likutei Sichos of the Rebbe ZY”A quotes from a very large range of Achronim including contemporary poskim .
Now when it comes to chassidus/hashkofo the typical Chabadnik simply has such a huge body of Chabad chassidus that it is natural for him to stick to that exclusively. The broader Chabadniks will have also looked at other sefrei chassidus , R’ Tzadok, Sefas Emes, etc. They usually have not looked at the seforim of the baalei mussar because they simply do not like their style.
In fact, as someone who has learned many years in Litvishe Yeshivos, I found that most of the bochurim or avreichim were much narrower than the typical Chabad bochur. This was especially so when it came to Hashkafa but even in regular learning only the Yeshivishe acharonim were used.
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