With all due respect, you're asking the wrong question.

I read the question you are asking as a rhetorical one.

You seem to me to be implicitly criticizing people for doing something that you once did but now eschew. Apparently you underwent a conversion experience.

If you want information which is relevant to you, ask yourself the question "Why do I care?"

For example, If you are Irish, a disdain for "Irish music carpet baggers" makes perfectly good sense. I'm not Irish but I've been there myself and done that about "my" musical traditions. But if you're not Irish, why do you care?