I have noticed the same trend and I mostly agree with you.
I guess as morph/designer breeding projects are getting exhausted, some breeders turn to a new money making interests, interracial hybridazing.
They are fertile, really? Please tell me some that will produce fertile youngs when you pair them up with hybrids of the same ancestors.

Are there naturally occuring hybrids? No, people stop convincing there are hybrids existing in the wild. There are not. There are myth like the the first Bateater was WC, which is nonsense, even if the first one was an imported python. Show me a study that describes any wild found hybrids of pythons or boas. There is none. Also, if there would be any "hybrid" population in the wild, they have already been described as a separate species several decades ago most likely.

Anyone who is a little into biology, zoology, nature, etc should know that those hybrids are a DEAD END from various standpoints. How many breeders have you seen advertising like "I'm asking 5000$, for this Coelen python (BoelenXCarpet) which will never produce any offspring as they are unfertile"? I'm sure not too many.
Creating hybrids happens only by manipulating in captive conditions and is considerably a passive way of animal torture. If something, these hybridising should really be banned, at least doing it for financial interests. I'm curious to see how many people would be involved in these projects, after selling hybrids for money would have been banned.
By the way, in some countries according to the animals wellfare laws, you cannot sell an animals that are not able to reproduce fertile youngs, which prevents creating hybrids in the first place.

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