Ive vaped a lot of herb. And will say, there's a bigger difference between growers than there is strains. Hydro growers don't know that. They only have 1 sense, the sense of profitting off of ignorant people with money.
Hydro is a joke. It makes me sick. And those additives are sugar contaminant. I dont give a shit what big mike told you on a grow forum. The plant soaks up sugars and nutes (theres no micro life in hydro, they are simple molecules ready for uptake) Doesnt provide stomach relief. Soil bud is usually legit, unless the grower is using hydro nutes from the bottles. Thats the only bad tasting soil bud there is.
One mans trash is another man's treasure i guess. But most people defending hydro don't vape, dont know what a green hit is, say that blunts ruin the taste, and never heard of getting euphoric from squeezing buds. Because those things, complex flavors and smells, don't exist in the hydro cannabis world. Hydro smells so bad i cant tell if its fake or not.
Ive seen the attempts at improving hydro. Ive had the best hydro there is in the country, and it still has less flavor than good mexi brick. And how did they get any flavor whatsoever? Its basically a "hybrid" coco operation perpetually fed bottled bens/mycos and saltless nutes like Mills.
So, improving hydro is making it more like soil... What other evidence do you need. The only hydro that ever stunk up my living room had more money in bottled micros and "hybridization methods" than Ive spent on my entire soil.