And Reb Yochanan punished his Talmud for fun, or to motivate everybody else? Yeah, I know your answer: the Gemara l..d about that, too. R”L.
By the way, think about how silly this famous booster theory, promulgated by Haskala, really is. The Baal Shem Tov came around to boost the spirits of the masses after Tach V’tat. That is equivalent to saying that Reb Amnon Yitzchak is just trying to make people forget about their Tzaros from World War One.
Rav Hai Gaon, the Raavads, the Ramban, Rashba, Rabbeinu Bachya, Ramak, and Arizal, who taught deep secrets and refused to reveal them at large, were merely trying to say, “hey guys, wazzup!”
Why don’t you listen to the rest of the story from those who share these views? When the Hebrews left Egypt, through the intervention of a charismatic man, they needed an identity, so…