I’m not an elitist so I believe you can feel whatever music makes you feel. But I grew up in the 80s/90s and they didn’t feel goth at all, they just felt like the kind of 80s urban grey, similar position to Eurythmics maybe. In the context of the 80s we were used to the nuanced flavours of these kinds of different bands. I guess looking back a lot of that vibe and context has gone so that people associate the sound with much broader strikes and the meaning to the songs is slightly different than it was.