[jlogajan]

Why would the capacity for genetic diversity be an indicator of bad initial design?

You should be in marketing. You can sweep inbred mutants under the rug as if there were no underlying design flaw.

[Sabertooth]

You can sweep inbred mutants under the rug as if there were no underlying design flaw.

I can't drive my Mustang across the ocean. Is that a design flaw?

[Sabertooth]

You can sweep inbred mutants under the rug as if there were no underlying design flaw.

BTW, you should know better than to toss the red herring concept of mutagenic inbreeding into this debate. No one claims mutation arises from inbreeding.