Interesting how you are fine with considering this undermining the award's credibility but not the many times she's been snubbed for AOTY. Many blind items often said they voted out of the narrative that she was already acclaimed enough and she didn't need AOTY over the years. That doesn't undermine the award's credibility with you? Them "fixing the narrative" does when voters themselves had said they were "fixing a narrative" re: Beyonce being too accoladed previously?
It's a gold statue from the industry and based on how opinions here can change regarding albums being hits, singles being hits, an artist's narrative, who they worked with on the album, none of us can truly honestly assess art on its own terms. I'd ask you to please tell me in terms of craftsmanship, intention, composition, lyricism, vocal performance, production, on those metrics, you'd have had her lose this year in a vacuum completely not engaging with her previous snubs? Ignoring of course your own genre biases and what you personally like.
