This is a pretty silly statement. Sorry, I cannot tell if you are saying inlt tongue-in-cheek.
Hplvd has been decimating the hop industry for a long time. Yes, Dark Heart passed it all over California with their clones but also wrote the white paper on its presence in cannabis. I admit there is irony but it's running rampant everywhere now.
As for the cost, if you've never grown a piece of cannabis tissue from 0.25mm into a fully capable, rooted living plant you'd know why people charge $5k. It is really hard to do and it fails a lot.
Have you seen a field of dudded plants before? I'm not talking about a tent farm here. It is pretty horrifying sight to see in a multi-million dollar enterprise.
I work with folks in Mendocino who just lost one of six strains they had in fields this year. It's a $2m operation. That's a hard hit to take.