Reb E – i guess the chazon ish lived on stolen money and disgraced the Torah… ch”v – editor’s note
If there’s anything disgraceful, it’s telling bnei torah not to learn because of a ket’a from a rambam which no one paskens like, and about which the radvaz says that torah would have been forgotten if we had.
Also, the rambam was not against being supported by an individual. He himself was supported by his brother. The same would go for fathers in law, or wives. No one, not one rishon ever questioned yissachar/zevulun. To lump it all together is just sinas batorah and those who learn it.