It’s also important to note that Consort is no longer considered immune in the Northeast, as there appears to be a different or new, mutated strain of WPBR.
Ribes regs definitely suck, but I understand why they have them. WPBR is a very serious disease of an ecologically and economically important species. If we could get rid of chestnut blight or Dutch elm disease by eliminating raspberries (completely ficticious, for illustration purposes), we might think twice about growing raspberries.