I do not think it is. In fact, I think I was invited here by a buddy after I was done ranting about this very thing.
Maybe a LOT of you feel this way?
The state of the strain/varietal world gives me anxiety.
Most basically, I’m frustrated that – with millions of seed vendors out there – I cannot go buy, say, 5 genuine seeds of a legit Acapulco Gold. Or a legit Blue Dream. Or GDP.
Instead, I’ll get a lot of versions. Which is fine, I guess. I appreciate that many of these things simply aren’t available anymore, and I appreciate any grower’s attempts to recreate a copy. Done.
Until I just want a legit version of the basic classic.
Here’s a similar kind of thing: I love Gary Payton, ok? Got some great help here a few weeks ago finding what look to be legit vendors. Great. But what’s odd? Finding a simple, legit Gary P. is HARDER than finding all sorts of random Gary crosses.
My brain says: okay, great. Happy we all continue to innovate. But can we NOT forget about the original, ffs? We don’t have to ONLY get caught up in this hysterical crossing frenzy – we could do that while at the same preserving some really great, basic, classic, undisturbed Garys.
That’s just one example. My point is, there needs to be a cannabis store – seeds AND flower, retail AND online – that will ALWAYS have 50 percent of its flower and seed offerings to be classic, undiluted, perfect varietals.
That way, people can try doing their own crosses – or not.
The other 50 percent? Go nuts with your crosses, man. I love them too. Sometimes.
It seems like a bunch of hyperactive, impatient kids who can’t focus were in charge of the industry for the last 10 years and, in their unbridled excitement, somebody fucking let some plants die. 
What I want are some great, basic, reliable, legitimate varietals that never go away. There is zero reason that we should have to collaborate like detectives to find something that should be READILY AVAILABLE.
Can you even imagine a big wall of beautiful options that include (on PERMANENT offer) Durban Poison, Jack Herer, GDP, Northern Lights, Acapulco Gold, Columbian Red, Sour Diesel, Kush, Skunk #1, Gelato and GSC. . .and another wall of the very best crosses out there?
Someday, I want to start that as a cannabis cafe.
Final edit: it’s not that I’m a Male Karen or Fist Shaking Old Man. It’s not the retail lack of selection that gives me anxiety. The anxiety stems from the thought that some genetics will be – or already have been – lost forever.
/rant
lol Maybe I’m not using the correct terms or explaining myself well but maybe you still get my point!