Yeah, the fem debate is one that I view like growing styles. You have to go with what works with you. I've personally never had a problem with hermies affecting a crop, EVER. I don't see how I ever could either, because I check my plants all the time...it's fascinating to do so and never gets old. To me, my experience with Dj Shorts, Serious, and the strains Sannie worked were no better than my experience with the polys I've grown. True Blueberry being the one exception, dank as hell, yielded out the ass, but took forever to finish. With that being said, variety is the spice of life and some of these seed companies popping up are producing unbelievable dank. I'm in the Bay all the time and there's always some awesome poly, platinum cut, or crazy new cross popping up to take an old or even relatively new "elite" to that next level. That's the good thing about cannabis, the more variety added into a gene pool produces more illustrious rarities. Look at the makeup of a world renowned strain like gg#4. There's chems, sour, dj short, etc. all in the bloodline. In house is doing good shit imo and I see plenty of people reaping the benefits. I can't speak for other people, but I don't like smoking the same strains over and over for years and years. I may come back to something that is timeless, but to me there aren't many old school strains that are timeless to me other than sour d, chem4-d, whitemoonshine. To each his own though.