I wish they would release some varieties that have unique characteristics such as flavor or shape even though they aren’t commercially viable.
Alas, there's no colossal cornucopia of commercial cash for offering fruit with less economically viable properties. It all boils down to what will return the most profit that focuses the commercial breeder to concentrate on producing comercially viable hybrids. Likewise this is true in the orchid industry where viably commercial hybrids are what are attempted as the commercial breeder-grower is always hoping for a reasonably good profit
Now as a comparison, there are many of us orchid aficcionados who long for orchids which are unique and different ones from the norm, but where those sorts of 'different' hybrids tend to come from are backyard/hobbyist growers-breeders who are not constrained from making odd and interesting hybrids by needing to recoup a big money return. Yet even so, a few of those 'weird' crosses turn out to be wildly popular things with many orchid growers wanting them and so they get mericloned and made more widely available.
This same situation could easily apply, for instance, to any individuals doing backyard/hobbyist breeding of blueberries –or other tropical fruits, for that matter. Mangoes, for one, come to mind I suppose because I am certain that with so many mango varieties extant that surely a portion of them were created by hobbyist fruit growers.
OK — Just FWIW . . .
Cheers!
Paul M.
==