I never considered Halloween as a holiday. It is an invention to somehow celebrate "the bad and the ugly" and to subconsciously make people buy more things like costumes and sweets. Something like Christmas but not that "holy". I find it awkward that it is spread all over the world, but Thanksgiving Day was not borrowed by any other country. Somehow we are taking from the US only the weird things and habits that are not useful, healthy or harmonious. I for example would like to see in my country being celebrated the Thanksgiving Day rather than Halloween. I would like to see children being grateful rather than wearing ugly costumes.
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Very much in agreement on Thanksgiving and Halloween, even though we've widely managed to turn that into about the food. In our family, we've done some things here and there over the years to bring out the "Thanks" part, but I'm not sure we can call it a tradition. Maybe we can come up with something for the grand kids.
Halloween is just an odd thing to me. As you say, celebrating the bad and the ugly, which is probably putting it mildly. But since it's watered down and aimed to the kids, it's okay. Doesn't make sense.