Aaq, it might sound like a no true Scotsman fallacy, but if you think about it, what we’re really saying is that to be a gadol beyisroel, one needs to be free of all foreign influence. One must have pure daas torah.
And the rabbis who are known as scholars who claim that one can and even should be influenced by outside things, and who don’t believe in daas torah, or the authority of gedolim the way the yeshiva world does, and who claim that past gedolim have been… they’re excluding themselves from the yeshiva worlds definition of the term gadol. So why are they upset when we don’t call them gedolim? They don’t believe in the construct to begin with!