From someone I know who attends St John Cantius, the NO masses there are also quite traditional, using the rails for communionm, the Latin NO facing the altar, and of course no altar girls and no EMHCs, and they are well attended. Also one should not forget in Chicago, the Opus Dei ran St. Mary of the Angels that also uses the rails for communion and uses no EMHCs with a large number of young adults. Be it NO celebrated in a traditional manner or TLM missal, more traditional forms of liturgy have the substance that many young adults are looking for.
I understand the sentiment to your statement, so please don't take this as an assault, but I see this all the time and it needs to be addressed.
People always quickly point out how "beautful" the Novus Ordo is when done "correctly", and point out that they are drawing crowds at these also- people looking for more traditional forms of worship.
The only problem with this is that the people are being deceived and are focusing on the accidents, or the externals. The Novus Ordo, done in Latin, English, or Swahili, was created in the 1960's to upset the order of the entire traditional system of belief, from the Mass to the Theology. People learned fast enough that what was once fixed and uncompromising, could now be questioned and replaced. It was a synthetic replacement for the authentic tradition of the Catholic Church.
I am not here questioning the validity. The new mass is valid (all other things being equal), but it is not a substitute for the traditional mass no matter how well it is "decorated". At it's core it is based on a new theology, new prayers, a new calendar, and an open license to adapt it constantly to "modern man". Such a thing can not be seen as an acceptable replacement for the rock which came before it.