I think what's going to end up happening with cannabis is a divide like in the beer world. There will be the people that just want a Miller lite, and the people that will spend 40 bucks on a 4 pack of cherry coconut vanilla bourbon stout.
Yeah, Skunk 1 is definitely a classic breeding strain, it and Chemdog are in everything haha.
I'm doing it with a couple of the IBL's that I'm making, now going into the F3 generation. The original pollenation was (Uzbekistan x (Panama Red x Nepal Highland) & [(Panama Red x Nepal Highland) x Uxbekistan], with multiple males selected from each strain to pollenate the selected females with. They'll be going into the first IBL generation with the seeds that are maturing now. I can't say empirically how diversity was affected, but there are a spectrum of ladies in this generation, leaning towards Nepalma and Uzi.
Currently doing the same thing with Nepalma/(Moonshine x Amnesia) and Herjuana/Black Afghani.