Truthsharer, the men there (mostly in Lita where the main pirtza was) were not mekayem this mitzvah (of divorcing of overes al das). A limud zechus on them — they knew the pirtza was so widespread they would not find a better one. And don’t ask me kashos from Europe of 100-140 years ago — the Yiddishkeit was going down. Eventually a lot of them stopped keeping Shabbos and tahoros mishpochah also.
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