The point still all comes down to who we should listen to. We can and should have respect for our religious leaders in Christ's Church. But that does not mean we should heed everything they may say or teach, just as those at Berea verified in Holy Writ for themselves as to what Apostle Paul was teaching, and he commended them for it (Acts 17).
Furthermore, we were well warned about many false prophets coming in the last days, and a lot of those are in Christ's Church today. So that's why many brethren in the Church are starting to clearly see a battle going on today right within the Church, because of false ones creeping in, and it's causing mistrust in general of religous leadership, when each case should be weighed instead of blaming the whole concept of the Assembly.
The only false prophets creeping into His One and Only One True Church never happened, at least not enough to corrupt it entirely. Of course there has been phonies that crept into the only Church that Jesus left us with, for evidence of this read where Jesus foretold of this to happen in[ Matt.13: 24-30, Matt. 5:13-16, Matt. 13:1-9 ] even Jesus hand-picked Judas, and so why wouldn't a Church made up of people [ the members making up His One Church ] also not pick mistakes ? No chance that it [ the Church ] will ever go corrupt because Jesus promised that it can't ,because of His promise. [ Matt. 16:18 ] Why don't you believe Jesus?
The only battles that are going on is happening in satan's new churches from the Reformation on. Every one of the new churches are "watered- down " with a continuation of splitting and disolving, only His Apostolic Church [ the apostles /successors being the nucleus of His Church ] see [ Luke 10:16 , Eph.2:19 ] we find only One Church that is Apostolic for the past 2000 years.