Allah has said in Quran, go to the people of knowledge. I see no harm in going to the people of knowledge, Allah knows best for us. That is why it is advised, throughout history to have a teacher. For anything in this world, you need a teacher. You want to become a physicist, you can read all the books in this world and still not be able to grasp the knowledge. You need a teacher. That is why we have the 4 madhabs (in reality they are 1 since they all follow the 2 sources), now Prophet SAW is not here to tell us. Where do we go? Do we start reading and interpreting ourselves or do we go to the people of knowledge? Again, there is no harm in learning, all scholars throughout history have promoted learning but we should differentiate between learning and deriving rulings. The latter only leads people astray.