Actually, none of this matters really. The people don't listen to folk music, they've not listened for a century or more.
I was reading a diary yesterday about VE day 1945, London. Swarms of people were out in the streets celebrating and the diarist says;
"we sang all the old songs, "Roll out the Barrel", "Tipperary" and "Bless 'em all".
For everyone of us in our music ghetto there are thousands who aren't and it's only the "Folk" world that doesn't see that the people have already decided what their songs are and they are not Trad but they are written by people we know. There is some crossover ie The Corries Scottish anthem and Eric Bogle, but generally our people don't want to know the folk world. If they did there'd be huge hit folk musicals,audiences of thousands prepared to pay through the nose to see the great stars, magazines in Smiths with Vin Garbutt on the front cover selling like hot cakes...But it isn't happening and it never will.
It's been the same for three generations or more now and basically renders these discussions meaningless.