I can relate to all this Buzzy!
Growing up in the tropics with a wide variety of fruit trees in my backyard (top agricultural quality), meant that I spent my days having fruit for lunch, and basically anytime I needed a quick munch of whatever was in season.
It was when I left the tropics that I understood the rave foreigners had about our fruits such as papaya, mangoes, and avocados that matter.
I agree that many fruits are not that tasty for the reasons you've highlighted, and I find that people don't take delight in eating fruit as much as I do. I think it might be a culture thing?
It's nice to hear that some fruits are ok for you as a diabetic...
I do hope your pineapples will be tasty when you get to them. Pineapples are one fruit that I cannot eat unless fully ripe and sweet, otherwise I get a proper itch in my throat.
Get well soon man!... and maybe your taste will improve also...or so I hope 😇
I used to eat far more fruit when I wasn't diabetic and was a younger person when fruit tasted like fruit and not old shoes. I think things will only get worse when it comes to food: Additives, short-cut production methods, genetically modifying...None of it is leading to a good place. Progress, they call it. I don't though.