I don’t have much of a dog in this fight, as I believe there is value in every group and that there is also troubling voids in every group as well. But when I’m in the five towns and see the doctors and lawyers learning with hasmada on shabbos, because they’re busy during the week, and see their children growing in the penimiyus of their yiddishkeit, I get the impression that their homes are built on a solid foundation in which the children see a love for Hashem and the torah, and often either are more “Shtark” than their parents.
Conversely, when I’m in Tri-State Chasidish communities, and I see the levels and pursuit of materialism unmatched in practically any community in the world, Jewish or otherwise, and see how young couples getting married know which lines to fit into but are practically devoid of any yiddish fire or meaning, I wonder if their path was proper