Dass yachid says:
The purpose of Artscroll, and its tremendous accomplishment, is that it enables balabatim who otherwise wouldn�t be able to learn on their own to do so, or at least to cover more ground.
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Do some honest home work, mr Dass tachid and u may just discover that before “kollel” was invented ,just about every man was a balaboss.
Some how these ballei varim managed to learn just fine without an artscroll. So don’t align the birth of arscroll with balleibatim