Know what bothers me?

The pyramid scheme at the heart of it. Breeders producing to sell to breeders. How many people spend hundreds or thousands of dollars for a pet-only snake?

It doesn't seem so bad with other reptiles, which are really easy to keep as pets and priced for the pet market. Beardies, leos, turtles, cresties... But snakes? It seems like the pet industry is not really ready to pay big bucks just to keep a snake as a pet.