Reasons for abandoning Taqleed of Madhabs?

Asslamo Allaikum,

I would like to hear people's views on why a number of people in the Ummah abandon Taqleed of Madhabs?

Jazakallahu Khayran

In my limited experience in USA and Europe a large number of Muslims abandoning Madhabs fall into 3 categories:

1. Born-Muslims (Non-Professionals): Many born Muslims came from a cultural background and taught to do things from childhood with a cultural slant. When they grow up and begin to analyse matters and ask questions they are given cockabul stories and fictional tales which don’t often make sense. Their reaction is then to reject everything which they witnessed in their family (or greater cultural setting) as “innovation” and insist on following Qur’aan and Sunnah. In Europe I see 3^rd, 4^th generation youth clearly telling me “Hanafi Madhab” is what my forefathers followed; I follow the Qur’aan and Sunnah. This is a very specific mind-set.
2. Born-Muslims (Professionals): Western education system produces a certain kind of mind-set! It is evidence based and not eminence based i.e. you are told to question the validity of conclusions and derived results until they stand up to scrutiny.  While previous generations accepted the statements of their “Imam, Maulana, Shaykh” on face value the “educated” generation wants to look at the evidence and revaluate the conclusions. This formulaic methodology lends very well to “Google evidence”, “Find evidence”, “follow evidence”.
3. Reverts: By and large they are wary of following “cultural Islam” so without having sufficient background and knowledge the “follow Qur’aan and Sunnah” methodology lends incredibly well. They can actually see (and evaluate) what they are following instead of an “Uncle or Aunty or Imam (with broken English)” is telling them to do.

Exceptions apply ofcourse.

Those who are trying to counter this approach (inadvertently) reinforce it by giving a name instead of evidence i.e. the famous incident in London where a well known Shaykh was told to follow “Shaykhul-Hadeeth (Maulana) Zakariyya Kandhalwi (RA)” because he taught Hadeeth for 50 years!

It was deemed that this would be enough to present as evidence.

We are coming at the issue from two different perspectives.

One is the mindset and the other is the argument, I am looking at former while you are looking at later.

Following Dr Zakir Naik is a "mindset" issue as well as an "argument"

Those watching Dr Zakir Naik in a suit and tie on their TV screen may also have hidden feelings against their "Maulana" who:

1. Is wearing a Kurta
2. Doesn't speak English
3. Doesn't rattle out references
4. Doesn't quote modern science

Only defeating the argument is 50% effective (in my opinion).