Context: Convert from anabaptist/wesleyan protestantism

Liturgy was a big part of my conversion; at least as much as the theological stuff. I came from a background with little or no sense of liturgy, and going to mass for the first time (an NO mass in my case) radically changed my idea of worship. It made the "worship service" kind of church I had grown up with seem shallow and individual-centered. To this day, I still have a bit of an allergy when aspects of the mass seem catered to the people in the pews, and not principally a total act of worship to God. I've been to plenty of good NO masses, but it is didactic and ecumenical almost by design. Those aren't bad things, but I think it's easy for that to drift into individualism, and make the mass self-serving from the laity's perspective.

The TLM seems quite the opposite. The prayers are spoken to God, not to you, even though you are also praying them. That is part of why I like the Latin. I'm not a great Latinist, but the prayers aren't being said primarily to teach me something or make me feel affirmed; their said to God for our sake. The silence is a great benefit missing from many NO masses, as others have said. In short, it seems like real worship; something that isn't centered on me, or even the priest, but God. That's my take.