It seems to me that it would actually be a great "selling" benefit to professional growers/propagators/retailers, to propagate specific genders (Male & Females) of the same types of plants, whereby they could then sell these to people looking for a specific plant in a specific gender. (I know there are times I might pay a little more for that option.)
With more people wanting to make their own crosses, as well as being responsible growers concerned about the future of plants, especially of non-hybred, "pure-bred species, it is a wise thing to do!
Many plant & animal species have more available males than females, which makes sense in a way, as many males can pollenate the limited available females. Having more pollen floating around makes a bit of sense actually.
As for me however, I would prefer a 50/50 or more of females, but then that is likely the typical male response!
For myself, I would rather have seed grown plants... most of the time. However in cases where I do want the specific traits of a plant, like the huge traps of a B-52 VFT where the seedlings may often NOT carry on the large traps, I would of course prefer the propagated or TC "clone".
(Although from what I have heard from a few people, there are sometimes still variations that happen when attempting to "clone", so I don't believe it is an "always an exact duplication" sort of situation... and thank God for that!)
One thing wonderful that TC has done for us is to help growers propagate many plants at an extremely high rate, which then makes many plants readily available to the average grower that would normally not be around so freely. That also helps bring the price down greatly.
So while there are great benefits to seed grown plants, TC does have a very beneficial place in this hobby. I can remember years ago when only a handful of plant types were available, and it was a very limiting hobby!
So having seen & experienced both sides of this situation, I find that there are great benefits to be had both ways. I only hope some short sighted person doesn't make some decision that will further limit what is available to us.
For those relatively new to the hobby, I can only say that you have no idea how lucky you are to have the varieties available today that we do.
Well, just my thoughts....
Oh yea, it would be nice to have a list of the specific plants that are being distributed (like what kind of B.E. Ampullaria) that shows which gender they are. Although I realize it could likely change if companies change their stock & re-do their cloning. But for the time being, it might help growers to figure out what plant they may want to purchase to create a potential hybrid.