Many traditions look 'absolutely ridiculous' when broken down and pretty much all holiday things would fail if we asked if they were necessary. Most of the points of holidays is coming together to do things that aren't entirely needed but bring a lot of meaning, interest, and pleasure to our lives.
Like Christmas trees - how ridiculous is it to take up space in the house with a tree in the house for a few weeks and store a bunch of items purely for it's decoration, with many trends and traditions that involve getting new things for a tree ever year (if not buying a whole new tree entirely). Many of the decorations increase the risk of fire and the destruction that can happen when they topple over. It's just a unnecessary and wasteful tradition.
So I simply don't do them (I haven't done Christmas since being a teenager) and still think if celebrated that my maternal grandparents with their little old ceramic tree that sat on the wooden box TV as decor then just handed out presents seems a lot more sensible and relaxing than anything my parents or anyone I know with a tree in their house did.
But what I find relaxing and enjoyable doesn't matter in how others celebrate their traditions. I can recognize many others love them, even if I do not understand why (decorating trees outside I mostly get & can appreciate from a distance, inside it just seems like risky clutter) and recognize that for every Elf on Shelf new thing being sold at people, there is something like Christmas Eve boxes which have been a long standing tradition in many communities for quite a long time. They're only considered new because they're being spread more from places where that's been the norm for decades or even longer and some businesses have chosen to co-opt it.
That doesn't change what it matters to people anymore than there now being Día de Muertos merchandice in many places doesn't change what the holiday means to me, it just means we get more options. Pick what you want and leave the rest, that's how traditions have always passed on.