If that is what you think happened with 100s maybe thousands of times the amount of people leaving yiddishkeit in college without the rebeliousness found in many current OTD kids then yes.
You are comparing Apple's to oranges
Going otd from college campusus of the 70s didn't require the pain because it wasn't anywhere near the degree of separation that we are talking about if anything it was embracing culture and social circles that they were more a part of then they were leaving