We are talking about presenting recreated material within the revival and passing it off as wholly from oral tradition. Scholars/researchers/truth-seekers are also perfectly entitled to call this out when they come across it.   quote
IMO The whole nature of this music is it gets changed, it evolves, tradtional singers have always altered tunes and words, sometimes through mishearing sometimes because they wanted to,sometimes they made up a tune to a set of words, because there was not a tune AND IN TIMES GONE BY THEY SAID NOTHING ABOUT IT just like Bert
without change traditional music becomes a museum fossil, set in stone.