Just the fact that autos are crossed with crap makes them crap imo.
Plus, every seed is a dif pheno unless there's breeders making auto beans and somehow are also stabilizing that cross. Still equals crap lol.
That's your preference though.
I agree there are some crappy breeders. The autos I've grown from reputable breeders have been stable. Potent also.
In the beginning autos were bad. I've said that here. My opinion changes over the last few years.
Sure they are all different phenos. I get what you are saying. I fi to finally went to keeping a few mothers and cutting clones. Uniform performance. You know what you are getting.
In justugh situation the autos make sense. They are hardy plants and work great guerilla plants.
He is growing to sell. It will sell. There are places where good weed is hard to fund or is really expensive. The autos I'm talking about are better than than most of the weed around here.
I get it. I know exactly why you prefer photo. In your circle people want the top shelf stuff. Others just want decent weed to smoke.
I will also say the reason I didn't like autos 5 or so years ago that it was hit and miss. One plant may be fire and another just like it wouldn't even get you high. Most were also dwarf varieties.
There are some good breeders that worked the kinks out. They are bigger, more stable and more potent back then.
They worked them enough that the auto flower trait.
No biggie. What ever floats your boat.