What I've noticed with different specialized lines of fruit is that early-on, varieties tend to show up in small niches where they succeed because they taste gr

What I've noticed with different specialized lines of fruit is that early-on, varieties tend to show up in small niches where they succeed because they taste great. As their popularity increases, more growers and larger buyers start to become involved at which point the exceptional taste of the fruit variety often gets diluted. I'm sure this is partially because of the harvesting process for larger tonnage buy volumes. But, I'm also guessing that 'tweaks' to that fruit also start getting applied for yield/producability etc. In my area, Red Delicious was mostly a bad mealy/bland texture, Fuji's started out great but are now are sometimes good/bad. It will be interesting to see if a controlling interest in the 'brand name' of a fruit variety ends up managing the quality of a fruit.