Every one should have rabbanim who they’re comfortable with and whose ideas are compatible with their own. People may denigrate certain rabbis whose approach differs from their own, but nobody is asking you to become their talmidim. I would be very happy, for instance, if more people accepted Hakham Yosef Faur’s ideas, but it is possible to disagree with someone’s ideas without attacking them in an ad hominem manner. A famous Sephardic rav, whose approach and responsa I typically think are highly sensible and reasonable, for example, attacked someone of a different political affiliation as evil and with an entire host of verbal attacks. This is wrong, and very much goes against the spirit of the Rashi the OP cited. As a rabbinical friend of mine wrote (As a title of his book), “You don’t have to be wrong for me to be right.”
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