Here in Michigan I can’t count on a good crop of tomatoes from one year to the next so I grow more of the things I can count on.
They figured it out by the end of the dark ages in Europe so I see no reason I shouldn’t benefit from their experience.
We need to get together and pump more co2 into the atmosphere to “save the planet...”
My solution to the Michigan tomato growing season variant is to grow twice what I need each year and can a hundred quarts.
That way I always have enough to last though a bad year or two. Some times I don't get everything quite right, this year I ran out of Habenaro puree.