Yabia, most shas voters do not wear black hats and jackets;m, and the gedolim wear the “glima”. I cannot believe that your accusation of being litvishe boils down to the clothing many members wear and the embrace of kollel life.
The kolel system is not ashkenazi or sefardi. It was done, according to the ran( a sefardi!!) In bavel, but was not the norm in either Europe or the sefardi countries. All sectors of klal yisroel recognized the practical need for kolel on some level, some push it more and some less, but there’s nothing ashkenazic about it.
Would you rather the sefardim wear Arabic clothes like they did before moving to Israel? Or would you rather them dress like Israelis in jeans and t-shirts? Would that make them more sefardi? Why not just dress like the most ehrlich people?
It would be great if sefardim went back to the way they dressed in Iraq, etc… But they didn’t. Before rav ovadia, they didn’t learn much and dressed like modern dati people, so which is better?
Also, most sefardi rabbonim were very against shaitels; that’s one way you can see their external differences.
No wonder you held off on answering; you knew how empty these claims are.