I'm like you, I place a high value on tradition and ritual both religious and secular. We live in an iconoclastic age when those things are viewed as primitive, restrictive, or otherwise meaningless.
I think you may really like the Tridentine Mass. The thing to remember with the Latin Mass is it's not exactly important for us to know and understand everything that's said because the priest is offering the sacrifice on all of our behalf. His inaudible prayers are for God, not for us to hear. The Latin responses that the laypeople do have—don't worry about participating in those at first, just take in the experience and see what it's like.
If the idea of the Novus Ordo appeals to you because, perhaps, of the usage of the vernacular, you might be interested in the Anglican Ordinariate. It's a niche within the Catholic Church for parishes that are fully in communion with Rome but they've retained their Anglo liturgical heritage. Basically it means Rome took the Anglican liturgy, went through it in detail, and removed any theological and liturgical errors that were there. So the result is essentially a Tridentine Mass in Elizabethan English.
The English liturgical tradition is a really grand treasure, so it's a nice additional option for the Catholic Church to have alongside her liturgical crown jewel (the TLM) and the various Eastern liturgies that are celebrated as well.
I see you're in the UK, so if you think you'd be interested in something like that you would want to check out the
Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, which is like a non-geographical diocese of parishes that are part of the Anglican Ordinariate. You might have one near you, which would be awesome.
