I’m too lazy to look it up now but iirc only one tomatoe (flavr savr) was GMO and it didn’t fare well in the market. Most GMO’s are machine planted/sprayed/harvested corn and soybean varieties. There several hundred varieties of things called a ‘tomatoe.’ Many large growers focused on a few varieties which grow so fast (so fast no flavor develops) and are durable enough to endure warehouses and trucks for delivery to stores. That is why many stores have crap tomatoes.
You are 100% correct. We did some grocery shopping the other day because I needed baking supplies for the upcoming Baking Extravaganza that is expected of me each year about this time.
I held up four tomatoes, still attached to the vine, and Beau and I just laughed and laughed because we KNEW...they’d taste like cardboard. ;)