>> There is no entry point where one can't care about the backstory and appreciate the 'text' from a contemporary viewpoint <<

You can find history-free, lecture-free folk music any day of the week and any weekend in summer, if you want to. Just go to some gigs. You don't have to attend the workshops as well.

If, on the other hand, you spend your hours logged on to a folk music discussion group, you shouldn't be surprised to find discussions about folk music.

And if you want to go around starting threads called 'Does Folk Exist', and demanding proof of the 'folk process', you might accept the responses you get with interest and good grace, instead of sneering about trainspotters and Asperger's syndrome.