I haven't watched the Grammy's ever and even though I'm 50 now, I would have said the same thing when I was 20. Same for The Oscars, The Tonys, Miss America, Miss Boringverse and Nascar since they took out actual stock cars.
^^^^Same here, except I'm older than you are and, therefore, am a crusty old fart.
I watched a few years back and had a hoot watching Bruno Mars -
he's got a connection to the older R&B artists I grew up watching ...
Then again, its a TV show - none of its going to go real deep anyway, and since a lot of folks watch TV as a "two screen experience" -
sort of half-watching the TV as they surf and focus on smartphone or tablet, the TV shows have to have drama or something flashy
to keep pulling viewers off their tablets and back to the TV for the advertisers.
... its about the eyeballs baby!
I'll do what I usually do - record it on the TIVO/DVR, then skim it the next day in FFWD and look for any interesting bits.
Def NOT going to sit there for 3 hours or whatever watching it in Real Time!!
I don't watch any award shows. Too much self back patting.