Sous electricians have become part of the hit list !!
Ah well !!
It is a fairly apt analogy for what is happening big-time in the folk world
When Roud's disappointing book hit the presses the critics were on it lika a shot - "Look - the folk didn't make folk song" - a century's scholarship down the Klarts
For us, Child, Bronson, Sharp - Wimberly was a springboard into a wider understanding of what we were hearing and being told by the singers - and it worked
Placing the songs into a social setting, discovering a massive and somewhat neglected songmaking tradition, listening to the singers claim ownership of the songs, their identification with what they sung.... all putting flesh on the skeleton

I would point out that any problems you found with electricians were almost certainly due to their understanding their trade rather than with the trade itself
As a time served electrician with four decades plus work experience, I refused to register myself as an electrician when I found I would have to sit an exam set by desk-jockeys who wouldn't know one end of a screwdriver from the other
I'm beginning to realise that the same can be applied to Folk songs and ballads
I'll stick with what I think I know rather than start again, if it's all the same with you
Jim