Qwerty – on multiplicity of position by T’Ch. A good point.. At some point, there was a Sanhedrin that resolved differences. Later on, Jews were dispersed and each community had their own approach. So, you would ask _your_ Rav as, usually, there were no other available. You can see several cases in Tannaim and Amoraim that deviations created problems even then.
Rabbi Yehuda is not happy of R Meir’s students like Sumkus who quote their rebbe.
Rav Yehuda who learned by both Rav & Shmuel points to R Nachman everything he is doing wrong according to his teacher Shmuel ….
So, in our times, many people are naturally exposed to multiple views. Some go to one shul during ther week, another on shabbos … So, they are now enabled to effectively choose (aka vote) between different T’Ch. So, it is possible to choose one shitah and then berate others for “not following T’Ch” where the notion of T’Ch is defined by the speaker. Even if we might not solve this problem here, we should at least acknowledge the situation and be more humble about the issue.
Sorry, your interpretations of how following daas torah works does not qualify as a ‘situation that should be acknowledged.’