A lot of people don't think that's a fair categorization of vertical farming. Sadly they either simply don't know anything about some combination of agriculture

A lot of people don't think that's a fair categorization of vertical farming. Sadly they either simply don't know anything about some combination of agriculture, real estate, the concept of unit margins, or they're pushing an agenda. All of the problems you highlight with standard monoculture ag absolutely exist, and can only be solved by reducing the global population by some terrifyingly large number to get field utilization down to the point where rotation and fallow schedules start to make sense on a global scale. Attempting to resolve these issues with vertical farming would have you trying to capitalize a 10 story structure almost exactly the size of Vermont just to cover the US domestic wheat crop. We've all heard the marketing song and dance around the industry and none if it scans in the face of even the most cursory examination of actual field acreage utilization figures either domestically or worldwide. You want to solve the global over-farming crisis (and it definitely is one) start engineering a pathogen.