I think when it comes to commercial strains it's a bit that way already. The big companies like those in Canada and some in Europe are for sure that way already. They have all the basic strains but they tend to look for big producers that are quick. A lot of it is going into making edibles and concentrates.
Even our local pot shop is "bland" to me. Again they have all the basic lines, they have a couple cookies and a couple of this and that and the other, but none of their actual bud really stands out to me as unique or even just over the top when it comes to anything, not flavor or even potency. They mostly sell concentrates and edibles though, I'm talking about ten times as much being spent on concentrates and edibles as actual bud/weed. Bang for your buck is way higher with the Pens/wax/etc, than it is for buying their rather bland weed for jacked up sky high prices for top shelf "Medical" weed. Then they have cheap weed for sale too but again, it's just bland. None of the Bud sold really grabs me by the balls and says, this one right here is going to get you off and taste amazing. Even when they have something that is supposed to be fantastic it's rarely been handled as well as it could have been and always seems to be either too dry or something else that leaves it lacking.
Michigan is also supposed to be allowing some Micro-licensing, that's up to 150 plants and sold on site. Think of the micro-brewery style of business. I expect those type of businesses will be looking to stand out. So it's likely we will have both, we will get the "Budweiser/Miller/Coors,etc. Kind of bland but as you said, pleasant and cheap. Seed sales to individual growers are likely to continue much the same as now for a while. Hype gets people excited about growing your own as opposed to just buying some. Most people who want to take the time to grow will still be looking for something BETTER than what they can get in the stores and at least as good as the micro-grow businesses.
And most Chuckers are still looking for standouts as well. Who doesn't dream of creating the next strain, that everyone has to have and that's so great it stays around for decades? The funny thing is that with tens of thousands of chuckers, the odds of someone finding that strain by pure luck goes way up compared with guys like me who have been breeding forever. There has to be at least a hundred times as many people chucking now as there was in the 80's, so just by pure luck of the draw the chances of the next best thing coming along completely by luck goes way up. In fact think of it this way. The breeders who are selling these strains can only pop so many seeds, the vast majority of the seeds they produce are sold to other people and these other people are going to be the ones who actually find the best pheno's. Chucking Skills help for sure, so maybe a skilled chucker has ten times the chance of doing it right and getting that strain. But that's not a hundred to one chance, so the odds are actually on the side of the amateurs at this point.
