Well, to be fair the parameter problem is common for all kinds of local search and is an interesting research topic. That being said, I agree that GAs are seldo

Well, to be fair the parameter problem is common for all kinds of local search and is an interesting research topic. That being said, I agree that GAs are seldom the most efficient, other kinds of local search are typically better. For problems where there is a natural way to express chromosomes, mutations, and crossover that captures interesting and relevant information GAs can be useful as an additional meta-heuristic.