So while I can see the tremendous importance of the great Litvak yeshivas, like Ponovitch or Brisk, I also can see that there is a need for a new direction.

The issue with Litvak yeshivas is that they can become kind of cult like. Or at least borderline. They can (and in some cases do) get the idea that they are the centre of the universe, and everyone was created merely to give them money.
So while I can see the tremendous importance of the great Litvak yeshivas, like Ponovitch or Brisk, I also can see that there is a need for a new direction. That is a study hall [beit midrash] on the name of the Gra. In that way there would not be any ambiguity about the fact that learning Torah is not a means to be making money. and that the rest of us plebeians were not created to serve the needs of the elite. Torah was given to all Israel  and all are required to learn it. There is no special elite class that everyone else is supposed to serve.