If you guys knew how deviant Asharis are in their essence, you’d run away from it. The fire base of their aqeedah is that you have to become kafir in order to become a true believer, you have to convince yourself first before becoming Muslim.
As for a lot of classic Hadeeth and fiqh scholars being Ashari, it was a widespread aqeedah and they are a product of their time. But they loved the Xaq, and when it reached them, they abandoned a lot of core believes of their Aqeedah. Imam Ibn Al-Asqalaani, one of my favorite classic scholars, refuted a lot of the core believes, like the one I mentioned before, of Ashari.
We Ahlu Sunnah, Ahlu Athari, give the scholars their due respect. If they error in some aspect it doesn’t mean they error in all aspects. The amount of literature the likes of Ibn Hajar, Imam Nawawi, Imam Suyuti and Imam Subki produced clearly indicates that they loved the sunnah. Some are surprised that we take knowledge from such knowledgeable scholars. One of the best fiqh books is Subul Al-Salaam, written by Sheikh As-san’aani, who was a Zayd Shia Scholar.