We have one Honeycrisp that has produced 3 apples this year, so I can attest to how difficult large-scale production must be.
Looking forward to some of the new cultivars, but if you’re going to add just ONE apple tree variety, make it the spray-less, ‘Liberty.’ You’ll need at least a while-blossomed Crab Apple nearby for pollination, or 2 other varieties of We have 6 apples in a group near the Liberty and one white-blossomed Crab Apple (Spring Snow) in the center of the house yard.
You’ll never regret it.
My old farm had really old apple varieties that I never was able to positively identify. As they died off (they were most likely there slightly under 100 years; they put them in when they built ‘the big house’ in 1906, versus the settlement shack that was on the property) the wood was excellent for smoking & charcoal grilling. I sold bundles of it at my little farm stand. Waste not, want not! ;)