I totally agree with hpoort. The database needs to be kept as is, and changes
made to the interface so buyers and sellers who do not care so much for some
variants have a way of filtering their searches and auto-buys.
Removing variants will eventually lead to sellers not bothering to describe the
variant in their product descriptions and buyers who are looking for a specific
variant will start to look at other marketplaces.
In Catalog, hpoort writes:
As a database engineer, this is the worst idea ever. To dumb down your core database
rather than solving it on the usage side.
As suggested many times before, why don't you allow sellers to indicate which
variants may have been mixed in a lot and allow buyers to specify which variants
they care about.
I sell on another platform and I have a check box that I can select to not differentiate
mold variants. This could be a valid way of separating the stores that do or
dont want to acknowledge the variants. The store will then be able to serve the
customer in such a way.