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This comes from a cursory reading on Wikipedia, but I'm wondering how Arianism is considered the most challenging Christian doctrine when some scholars were implying that Christ was just adopted or chosen, which to me seems even more daring

The Orthodox line was that God the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit, exist as a Trinity.

Arianism rejects this, saying that God created Christ, and therefore Christ is separate from God.

The heresy you're talking about here, adoptionism, also counts as Arianism in the eyes of the Nicene church. A lot of heresies at the time also include Arianism, so the most efficient way for the church to attack all of them was to attack Arianism.

This is an oversimplification that glosses over all the various internal and governmental controversies that were wrapped up in the council of Nicea. (How much power should bishops have? How should bishops be organized? Etc.)

Like, among other things, Arianism represented potential challenge to the power of the Church. If God can create a Christ, what's to stop him from doing it again? Let's say that 100 years down the line, someone shows up at the church doors claiming to be another Christ? If you're the church, you cant leave that theological door open.