I am thinking of a similar situation related to learning: R Gamliel forbidding insincere students, and revoking that rule “on that day” when more benches were brought and RG warming up to this mass of students … I personally am sympathetic with R Gamliel in terms of desiring purity of learning, and I think there is a kal vehomer here: it is easier to overlook lack of sincerity in mitzvos than in learning, as the first achieve something without kavana, while the latter requires intellect to be involved. So, if we reject RG approach to purity in learning, it would follow that we shuold do same in orthopraxy.
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