"It will take a show I might actually like and enjoy and turn it immediately into something I simply can’t watch."

This is where your argument just fails. There's no physical allergy to listening to mixed laughter. If there's a TV episode that's a 10 out of 10, addition of laughter doesn't drop it to 0 out of 10. At least not if you intended to laugh in the first place. People laughed at silent films, black & white films, no film (aka, radio). A laugh track doesn't disqualify something from being funny.

There's an All in the Family episode where Mike is unloading a bag of groceries and commenting on the products. He pulls out some kind of cleaner and says, "Look at this label, 'New and Improved.' Everything we buy today is new and improved. What were we using yesterday - old and lousy?" And this is what we've seen in recent years - an effort to disqualify older shows from consideration because these new shows have discovered some secret formula. It's marketing, not art or even criticism, and people who just can't watch Seinfeld or Cheers or MASH or Andy Griffith or Lucy have just fallen for a sales pitch.