“Regarding if I’ll change my mind, I would just like assurance that everything being observed by Chabad is halachically sound. I used to believe it was but CS has convinced me otherwise.”
I have to disagree with you a little bit here for once, Syag. I think you’re asking for assurance of something that you will never consider to be true, which will make this thread go on forever. You know the things Chabad does/believes and you know how our poskim hold in regards to them. They believe what they’re doing is halachically sound, we don’t. It seems that simple to me. Nobody is going to change their minds.
As for your claim that you previously believed there were no problems, did you think zman hatefillah, sleeping in the sukkah, and not eating before shachris were just silly Livisher chumras? There have always been problems, the question is just whether we can respectfully disagree or if one side feels the need to enforce their shittas as the only correct path.
Consistently, the Lubavitchers have shown their goal to be to convince us all of their shittos. The question answered with a question as an example: his analogy to the Besht reaching out to disenchanted frum yidden proves that he’s interesting in proselyting non-Lubavitchers.
They seem to have 3 approaches:
1) The overt meshichists like TT who just want to talk trash about gadolim and scream about moshiach
2) The covert meshichists like how CS was (and what I believe the new guys are) who want to sneakily justify their practices without explicitly mentioning moshiach
3) The non-meshichists like Sechel who want us to believe that their fraction of a percent of Chabad is the only REAL Chabad and that we should ignore the other 99.9%.