I'm a professional plant breeder (professional in the sense that it is my career, not that I'm any good), so here's my two cents for what's it worth.
They are your plants, so you should be able to do whatever you want with making crosses and the hell with any plan or goal. I might suggest that most people on here suggest to have a goal in mind because you'll get a lot of opportunities to make crosses and they just want to see you get the most success in your efforts.
However, I have occasionally sensed some air in authority about orchid crosses which I think stems from two factors: 1) there's a worry that your "freaks of nature " will pollute the gene pool either intentionally or by accident. Remember, these are slow growing plants, what happens when you are gone? What if they get mislabeled asking the way? 2) the assumption that the best plants that we see will produce the best progeny. There is truth in this, obviously, but I often wondered if the less vigorous plants are simply more inbred. Given a lot of paphs are outcrossing plants by nature, i would expect to see good heterosis and hybrids between two inbreds that are genetically distant.
If I were seriously thinking of breeding paphs, and more importantly, expected to have a very long life and career, I would focus on selling the best plants and trying to maximize trait differences among the inbreds. For example, focus on flower count (regardless of size) in the female and flower size (regardless of count) in the male.
This breeding strategy might benefit the consumer as well. I know I've been disappointed not being able to purchase nursery stud plants (or those nice big plants in the back of the greenhouse) and simply hope that I win the genetic lottery. If a breeder were to focus on max difference in inbred parents, the parents themselves would never win awards, but rather the progeny they produce and give to the consumer will have a high percentage of nice plants.
Anyways just my thoughts.
