I'm a 'new' grower (on my third run, about to be a year fooling with these plants) and when I got into this hobby, I definitely was lured into the traps. Coming from an illegal state, I'd never seen 99% of the crosses on seedbanks sites, so I was freaking out lol. Gelatos, cookies, sherberts, you name it; and this was on seedsman (not a bad bank I just have more knowledge now so they're no longer my go to). Anyway I ended up splurging and buying about 10 diff crosses (all fems) and I'm about to harvest my first round of them in a week. I also was a sucker for strain names, not knowing that means absolutely nothing to how the plant will grow, smell, smoke, etc.
I'm now collecting bodhi and doc d's work (love reg beans now and making f2s). I just feel like when buying seed, people need to take into consideration that there's a lot of variables that play into how those seeds will express the genetics inside of them, or if that seedbank or breeder is even reputable so you may not even be getting what they say you are.
And dakilla, I wouldn't say all of those genetics you chose were bad. They aren't my cup of tea but I would take into consideration that most of them you bought (except for the first two I believe) were single seeds. When planting a single seed of anything even if it's fem and trying to find some heat is hit or miss. I bought a single seed before (Dutch Passion Auto Critical Orange Punch), it had a decent citrusy funk to it, but it was my second time growing, and we'll just say I failed miserably and she began flowering way to early to amount to anything.
I think that before any variety is claimed as 'shit' I would try growing it in multiple different environments or with different inputs, otherwise it could very well be grower error.