MO was created by default, when someone invented this new notion of Torah-only hashkafah and that daas Torah is more valuable than secular expertise in the realia of the question. Both late 19th or early 20th cent ideas. This new notion of chareidism required rewriting the actual history of Lithuanian Judaism, the Yeshiva Movement, and Chassidus in Eastern Europe in order to pretend an older age that it really possesses.
That’s not to say MO is problem-free. If any derekh were problem free, the others would close shop and we would all switch sides. The trick is to respect and learn from the strengths of all of them.