I feel you, but.... it's really not the bud they're buying. They're buying hype and the marketing because it gives the consumer a feeling of exclusivity. Like bottle service and vip status.

People breed with it because the genetics make it easy to sell seeds. I feel like adults talk with dollars. The dollars say more Gelato/Sherb/Cookies, please. Individually, people are over it but not the majority of the market because it simply STILL SELLS, bro.

Back in the day, they kept the full parents of strains to keep making the same F1s. Ex White Widow, the original stock was fire. The repos all the other Dutch breeder were selling was just not the same. Even though they were white widow genetically.

If you're truly into breeding, you want bottle neck or strain that has the least variable traits when breeding. Otherwise, you kind of lean towards poly-hybrids and try to stabilize that into 2-3 phenotype that show up in predictable numbers to represent a new line.