@Yaakov Yosef A – I agree with your comment that “Gedolei Yisroel also know how to read Shulchan Aruch”. What I have yet to see from them, though, is an explanation as to WHY, exactly, this particular Se’if in the Shulchan Aruch does not apply to the present situation. A clear, cogent, and logical explanation is called for here – the concept of “it’s so because I say so” is not accepted in Torah except from HKB”H.
an Israeli Yid