“Additionally, why, for heaven’s sake, must one follow his fellow’s rav if he has his own?”
I agree, like I said before to Avira. The thing bothering me here with the new eruv is their lack of willingness to explain their halachic justification. You’re correct that other big cities in the past have had eruvin, yet they generally have had very specific reasoning. Even the Manhattan eruv has an official justification, albeit I don’t personally hold of it.
“There was and is no “minhag” in this issue. Why didn’t this “minhag” disrupt the KGH eruv?”
Not sure what this is in response to; when did I mention minhagim?
“Additionally, what’s this fabricated “waiting till the gadol dies” which you repeat (but didn’t invent)”
I could be wrong about this being an example of it. My chronology of the events might be off, as you pointed out. The general idea is certainly not fabricated, however (eg. the OU reversed some kashrus stances after Rav Belsky was niftar).
Avira:
Obviously you’re going to say Reb Moshe is way more chushuv than Chassidishe rabbonim, and obviously chassidim will disagree. There’s really no purpose in bringing those types of points into this discussion. Even if they really were lower tier than Reb Moshe, they’re paskening for their people, he did for his. Not everybody has to hold like Litvish Ashkenazim on everything.