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Lets end it here are you a Mujtahid? If not then Taqlid of one of the main schools of the Mujthaids is the way. Clearly me and you are no Abu Hanifa or Imam Bukhari or malik or shafi or al gahzzali or shah dhelvi etc etc. Unless you are a mujthaid.
'Are you a mujtahid?'
Mujtahids have always been the minority in the ummah, the vast majority of people have generally been laymen.
So your rhetoric also applies to the era of the best generations, i.e the salaf, as laymen who were not mujtahids also existed in extremely high numbers during their time.
Yet, the concept of exclusive taqleed of one madhhab, a.k.a taqleed shakshi was not present among them.
It only started during the fourth century.
So if your argumentation was indeed correct, then the laymen of the salaf would've surely done what you suggest, taqleed of one of the main schools. Sadly, no such thing happened, in fact those schools were formed later.