These feel like shark infested waters, so I’m hesitant to weigh in. Lots of parrots on cannabis forums that like to be keyboard warriors. But here’s a little insight, and some people will likely loose their poop over some of what I’m about to say, but oh well, here goes.
I’m a craft/boutique breeder that’s held and worked with a lot of old and new stuff.
I currently hold 80’s pnw blueberry, stardawg Corey, glitterbomb, papaya, straw guava, bbm, Macdaddy, NorCal Dosi (yes, ogkb is great), slh franco, MOB, lemon G, illudium, and some I’m forgetting. I recently culled original/weasel diesel, Z, Berger bubba, and several others older and important strains after holding them for years along with most of what I mentioned. I also hold some hunted stuff, none of them contain cookies (maybe one?). Right now it’s Dream Axis, Grapefruit x Blueberry, Goji OG, Dragonsblood Hashplant, a hunted white widow cut, BBM x Staten Island Diesel, and some Congo x Blueberry and some mutants…
Gushers and Gush Mints are volumes better to grow than any of the plants going around as TK, and they yield and the high is nearly as good, and maybe better depending on what you’re after. There is magic in crossing cookies hybrids with old school strains imo.
SLH Franco is probably the most beautiful and perfect hybrid plant I’ve ever grown. It deserves the accolades, as does a lot of the old Dutch work. My widow will put modern strains to shame in many regards. Beautiful structure and buds that stack for days. Chop it early and the high isn’t nearly as good and it feels like a short lived cookies dispo high. Weird, huh? 
Z is finicky but tough to kill and makes good progeny, that blueberry can look stunning or like a mutanty mess, don’t grow it well and it’s not great. Grow them well and they’re some of the best daytime smoke you’ll ever have.
Many of the cookies and related cuts in circulation are around for good reason. I don’t hold many of them because I’d rather make non cookie, but my cookies hybrids are always fun to sort through. Sorting through and growing cookies stuff for myself made me realize that a lot of people on the internet like to repeat things they’ve heard. So, now you’ll see people claiming nothing cookies gets them high, or it’s always short lived. But, it’s nonsense, it’s all based on a lot of variables.
I will say, I find that if I smoke any one thing for days in a row the high gets muted. I smoked white widow for 6 months straight and it was getting tiresome by the end, while others ill develop tolerance for much quicker. OG and gelato types can be like this for me. Some gelato hybrids are VERY OG like in smoke. Mixing it up and not getting used to any one chemovar or type is helpful for me. I mix it up every day and generally won’t even smoke something more than twice in a row. Today I’ve smoked Blue Nerds (love this one), Gushers, and I’m about to smoke some white widow. Tomorrow I’ll probably smoke my stank muffin (blueberry muffin x (SIC x Sour D IbL) and some gelato 41 and bubble bath.
My favorite smoke right now is the stank muffin, I’m trying to not run out. It’s chemically muffin with a really great high. It’s beautifully structured and roots in a cup of tap water in about 10 days. It was the only viable seed from a BBM plant I pollinated 2023 outdoor. The narrative that great plants are 1 in 1000 or some exorbitant number is nonsense. I find and cull great plants all the time, in my own work and others work. This example is not the norm, but I’d run 50 S1 cereal milk I’d find multiple great plants. Something that’s made with two great plants will consistently yield really nice plants. Then again, so will some of the SLH beans I’ve made and been sent by others, some strains just lend themselves to great progeny.
/info dump off
I smoked plenty of herb that didnt make me hallucinate too lol
