Cheech, and others,

In general, do any of you think the breeders have, in a sense, gone too far insofar as breeding short fibered hackle? I mean the present stuff is great for say, 14 down to even 28. But what about 12's, 10s, 8's, and Variants? Even good long, straight, stiff tailing, regardless if the feather comes from the neck or the scapula, is difficult to find. And yes, I know what we tiers had years ago. So you need not point that out. But where do they go from here and are we tiers sizing ourselves out of moderate size dry flies by our 'desire' for hackle with certain attributes? Just asking.