I would say this...considering the sixteen presentations by Bush II and Obama....there’s virtually zero value to these. I did enjoy the first two given by Reagan, but the others given by him were just average political chat features. The worst ever given was the 1978 SOTU episode with Jimmy Carter.
In 2018, Trump went around the country giving is SOTU speech. We saw dozens of them.
The SOTU shouldn’t be a political rally. It should be accomplishments for the year. This takes the oppositions rhetoric about “nothing new here” off the table and forces them to comment on what Trump did in fact do for America.