Presumably your lab director also isn’t a believer in In House analytics or data driven decision making?
Perhaps they comprehend Fuck Around and Find Out?
See if you can get permission to explore…
If there are multiple routes to a solution, actually comparing those routes using metrics you (they) claim to care about (“terpene” profile) makes way more sense than “nope we ain’t doing that!”.
I’d recommend in house “terpene” profiling, but 3rd party testing is also an option.
In my defense…you did respond to post number 172…and @HydrogenP does clearly state they took the route your lab director is unwilling to explore.