It makes sense to breed snakes as much for temperament as for other considerations, & if that reduces the number of offspring, even better- as I suspect there is
more than enough to go around, and if the pets people buy had better temperaments to begin with they might be kept for a lifetime, instead of being discarded
for something new. At least by one type of owner?

This is a tough question though, because on the one hand, I'd love to see species preserved as they are in the wild...and it's probably the most feisty snakes that
survive the best- the ones that make the worst pets...and it's also the plainer colors (& not albinos etc) that survive in the wild. Survival of the fittest- nature wins.

But it's also hard to argue with all the fancy "eye candy" snakes that breeders come up with now...living works of art, for sure...things that you don't find in nature,
things that would also not likely survive in nature -I'm assuming, because they never have. It will take a while, but eventually all the artificial choices we make
in lieu of natural selection will end up with domesticated snakes...and that, for me, goes against what I love about snakes in the first place. That they're wild...

It's really hard to have it both ways...as natural habitat is destroyed by population growth (land used for crops, road, industry, loss of space) are pet snakes all we're
going to have left? I hope not.