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I hate the existence of seedless watermelons. I seek out seeded watermelons because they were bred for taste instead of seed deficiency. Anybody who lived before seedless watermelons were common know what a real watermelon is supposed to taste like. They have been slowly becoming tasteless and more seedless since the 80s. The first ones called seedless I had were okay, but they also had lots of white, barely formed seeds. The ones nowadays have almost no seeds, but have absolutely no taste. The people who seek out seedless watermelons are idiots.
I'm not trying to be contrarian here, and I'm not saying you're wrong. But knowing how seedless watermelons are developed and produced, it doesn't actually have much to do with being seedless.
At least in the USA, there are lots of different seedless watermelon varieties. I've only grown a small number of them, but they've all been great tasting.
Other than under ripe watermelons and random "wild" cultivars, I've never had a tasteless watermelon, so I'm slightly skeptical of your comment, to be honest.
Tasteless is a relative thing. It is super rare now to get a good tasting watermelon. I buy them all the time so even the 'tasteless' ones are better than nothing and every once in a while there is a little bit of really good towards the heart. In the 80s and 90s it was rare to get a bad one, The rind tasted as good as the whole watermelon nowadays. It would almost have to be a rotten one to be disappointed. I am happy for you that you feel like seedless watermelons taste so good. I wish I could erase my knowledge of what it should be and live in that zone.
People have genetically different ability to detect flavors. Some people lack the receptors to detect the bitter rindlike taste in todays seedless watermelons.