The real reason Yasir Qadhi ”changed” was because like all intellectuals, they are only as good as their patrons and their environment. Muslims, being low IQ and uninterested in anything academic, don’t bother funding or seriously supporting any scholars. They only know how to build new mosques or fundraise bail for Andrew Tate. It’s well known that American Islamic studies post-docs toil in poverty and the only Muslim countries with money (Gulf states) are even dumber than their Western co-religionists. The Gulf States only give money to universities like Georgetown so retarded princes can be given free rides and fake PhDs. As a result of this dynamic, folks like Yasir who want to pursue the life of the mind can either join already established institutions, or they dumb themselves down for a popular audience. Since Yasir is too intellectually curious for the latter, he only finds companionship in liberal institutions. At least they don’t respond to him with “bruzzer, but how do you do wudhu?”
Of course this explanation implicates the wider Muslim community as a whole rather than an individual, and so it is passed over in silence. But hey, at least he isn’t in prison/dead like he would be in the “Muslim” world