And a lot grow fast enough that as long as you pick young specimens, it's rare to find bugs as they won't have had much time. E.g. chanterelles are usually big

And a lot grow fast enough that as long as you pick young specimens, it's rare to find bugs as they won't have had much time. E.g. chanterelles are usually big enough to pick in 2-3 days. When I used to pick them growing up, we'd usually avoid the older ones, as they weren't worth the hassle of cleaning and cutting away bad parts. Bugs is mostly a problem when picking bigger/slower growing ones. That's not to say it doesn't happen with others, but it's not really an issue. The problem with sticking to cultivation is how few mushroom types are reliably cultivated at anything approaching reasonable prices. Most of the options cultivated at scale bore me.