Fruits used to be alive. They’re organic compounds and can ripen or rot at different speeds. Heavily dependent on a lot of factors.
They can have weird tastes for all kinds of reasons; where they were stored, their age, and simply just that you may not like them. Mealy apples and bananas rot quickly, and insects are also quite attracted to the smell of fruit.
Some spots or pitting you may see on fruit that’s not stored away from insects (outside a refrigerator etc) may be due to bugs dipping their tasting organs into the skin.
Sometimes bigger fruits have milder flavored flesh (these “big oranges” you describe) and others are smaller, tarter or sweeter. Apples in particular come in many shapes in colors, cooking apples don’t tend to be cultivated for eating directly off the tree.
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