Most performers choose a song because it appeals to them, they do not choose it because it is traditional of because Baring Gould or some other song writer wrote it.
When a performer chooses a contemporary song they choose it on its merits, as far as I am concerned when I make a decision to perform a song, my decision is not influenced by whether it was a Baring Gould composition or a genuine traditional song, so it matters little to meas regards the choosing of the song.
Some of the scholars on this forum have in the past sneered at Lloyd and criticized him for allegedly producing fakes, these fakes have been so good, they have for many years fooled a lot of people. Does anyone criticize Keating for doing something similiar as regads old masters in the art world?
Keating had created them, he declared, as a protest against those art traders who get rich at the artist's expense.
Lloyd and Baring Gould, were concerned about collecting and leaving a legacy of large quality repertoire, for this they should be thanked not castigated by those whose concern appears to be not the merit of the song but scholarly accuracy, sing the song, judge the song on its merits and stop making a hullabaloo about scholarly accuracy, talk about a Mountain out of a Molehill.