I love me some aesthetics, with the full consciousness that its very easy to forget the reasons behind the existence of a given aesthetic. I love cottage-core as an idea, even though I like the practical activities rather than the clothes style more.

In any case I think it touches on a desire to live a simple un-alienated life, and that is great, but we have to be careful that this is not conflated with the whole trad thing, since trad has many common touchpoints.