Wouldn’t a fruit that didn’t adapt to us last longer as they weren’t pick?
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What makes you think they had a choice? It’s not like an apple tree… thinks. Humans don’t ask plants what they want, we force them to be what we want them to be. We wanted bigger strawberries, so we bred strawberry plants with bigger and bigger berries and helped them succeed while letting non-big berry plants die. It wasn’t “natural” selection. It was “guided” selection, or perhaps “artificial” selection.
Also as an aside – You should also consider that the whole point of a fruit is to be eaten. Fruits are not something a plant makes “just because”. They do it because it’s a very efficient way to spread their seeds. Animals are meant to eat the fruit, along with the seeds, and then go somewhere else and poop the seeds out.
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