Something recently occured to me which may inform my position on this subject. Back in the days when I was paid to enlighten the nation's youth rarely a year passed without the new cohort containing a few extolling the importance of jungle, house, shoe-gazing, anti-folk, lo-fi, grunge or whatever, each with matching trousers and haircut.
The uniting factor was that 'nobody understood' the importance of their preferred music nor its powers of transformation but themselves.

Traditionalists remind me of the same impulse. I often got what was good about the other genres too, without feeling the need to wear the T-shirt. That's me all over that is.