I totally agree but it was demand based, there just was't enough supply so weI remember Gold Seal hashes in the 80's. Flowers were always Sativa's (Colombian Gold, Panama Red, Jamaican Gold, etc) and you'd get your Indica fixes from Hashes. Then came the MH bulb and changed all that.
created the supply.
I can still taste the first gold in '71 in my memory, so sweet and resiny.
World of Seeds carries a redux of gold but you can't reproduce the UV - A,B,C
bands or the elevation to get that quality again unfortunately that land is used
for growing coca now.