Yup. "Progress." Progress has meant steadily killing the soil fertility and decimating the native food webs through lawns, monocultures, chemicals, and tons of invasive plant and insect species. Roses are one of those in between plants. Native in some form to almost all continents. All garden varieties are hybrids, so not exactly native, and not great as a nectar source. But plenty of bugs still find them useful, so meh.
Roses were my first gardening delight as a kid. And I learned a lot about them over the decades. Now that I am learning more about environment and sustainable gardening, they are my guilty pleasure still, but I seek better ways to have them as well as ecological diversity and harmony, to grow edibles, and help polinators.

Oh I get blackspot, for sure. But get this.... I sprayed preventively for 40 years, thinking it was the only way. Two years ago, inspired by little steps into butterfly gardening, I decided to stop all chemical spraying. I have replaced all my most vulnerable roses with more disease resistant ones, and it has been okay! I now get blackspot on some, but only sporadically. I pull off the leaves at f I think of it. Otherwise I leave it alone. Survival of the fittest. Some of the new varieties have been terrifically disease resistant. Hybridizers have really focused on disease resistance the past decade, and it shows.

Kordes, in Germany, has been one of the breeders leading the fight. This Buxom Beauty is a Kordes rose but from some years back. It is actually somewhat susceptible, but I love it enough to keep it. Mostly lower leaves seem to spot.

Since I stopped spraying, my yard has come alive. Lots of good preditor bugs, toads, hummingbirds, possums to add to the raccoons that always/already visited. And now I can underplant the roses with annual veggies without worry about toxins. Radishes, garlic, chives, and onions all have mild pest repellant value.

@MikeInBatonRouge i quit spraying a few years ago so I am up on that and I have kinda taken the - survival of the fittest attitude but my blooms this year were quite a bit smaller than normal.

Yeah, I don't think the variety name was accidental.