Talapia is known in cooking circles to have absolutely no taste and pretty much no texture.
If you see “talapia” proudly on a restaurant menu, you are in a diner no matter what the decor is. Which is OK so long as you are paying diner prices.
Only by morons who have no idea how to cook. If you can't make tilapia palatable you couldn't make eggs palatable, either, and have no business in a kitchen.
Fresh tilapia, which is what we have here in Florida, tastes a bit like chicken, only softer. It's not fishy; and its texture is akin to young flounder.