ON point 3 Hakim Murad who is a student and lecturer on Islam, in his video on the salafi fallacy, said to bypass the tradition and to go to the Quran and Sunnah directly is to set up ones own judgement as being superior to all of those others of great armies of purified souls is a form of implicit Shirk. Which i understand to be a reference to Shirk Al-Asghar - Riya/ostentation [Showing off]
Our Nation is expected to be effected by Riya, More in its latter period then its early period. It has been described as a form of polytheism by Asrar Rashid in his video A Dagger in the heart of …and He cited it as a reason for the emergence of Ahle Tasawwuf [sufis] in the period of the salaf. Again I understood this to be a reference to shirk Al-Asghar