I don't know, in a lot of ways I'm like you, I used to love sitcoms, and now I dislike them and hate the laugh track. But there are exceptions, and BBT is definitely one of them. There are also some really funny/clever sitcoms that don't have laugh tracks (ie community).
Laff Tracks are like fingernails on a chalkboard to me now. I stopped watching network sitcoms a few years back and now can't even listen to 20 seconds of that stuff without violently leaping towards the remote for a channel switch (not an exaggeration). I know BBT and other similar shows are filmed before a "live" audience, but it's that fake live audience where they laugh based on cue cards held up at the appropriate time (aka a "live" laff track).
And I'm not trying to sound elitist here. I used to watch sitcoms like crazy, but once you give them up, you can't go back.
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