I was reading the QA at this link: https://www.sistani.org/english/book/46/2027/Towards the bottom, if I understood correctly, it says if the experts do not identify one scholar to be the alam and instead identify a group of scholars to be equally knowledgeable& pious (which seems to be the case these days), then they are allowed to follow whoever in the group they wish (and I understand they can follow different people in different areas). Have I understood correctly? I’ve never heard of this before. If this is true, I really wonder why people are always battling each other over their choice of taqleed.