No, not in the 19th century when it was proclaimed, but on reading the history, we find that IC has been proclaimed since the early Church and even the Orthodox hold to the idea. The Orthodox, however, IMHO, have a better way of handling this, a less legalistic way. The Western Church as a whole — and that includes mainstream Lutherans, Anglicans, Reformed and to an extent Baptists tend to be far more legalistic than the East.
Insisting on Scriptural citation for doctrine isn't legalism.
we find that IC has been proclaimed
That isn't the royal 'we'. If IC was the outlook of the earlty church and substatiated in the Scripture, it would have been used when the heresies the Catholic Church has said it fights first arose, not many centuries later. Scripture IS silent, hence the use of Tradition.