Mindful – I have rarely seen a myopia that is so severe, that it sees others as myopic.
There’s virtually no strand of orthodoxy that doesn’t hold of rav chaim as a gadol. That includes satmar who are at odds with many litvishe rabbonim. I once met a farbrenteh satmar bochur who asked me who my rebbeim were, and my 3rd answer, Rav chaim, made him very settled… I have never met Rav chaim, but I knew it would make him happy to say it.
I’ve yet to encounter a single person who didn’t hold of rav chaim. And I have friends who are associated with the “real” neturei karta (as in, not the ones who kiss Arafat).
Modern rabbis have admitted the excellence of rabbonim like rav elyashiv, rav shlomo zalman, and rav chaim, even though they are “charedi”. The reverse is not true though; nobody outside of MO gives a lot of credence to the vast majority of RZ and MO rabbis, let alone hold of them to be gedolim.
The litvishe world is far from “tiny”. It’s one of the two fastest growing communities of orthodox Jews, next to chassidim. It comprises almost a million jews worldwide.