Eugenics/Designer-babies... is the concept really that bad?

[Astonished]

No, I mean a built in means to ensure that the beneficiary of their gene editing service couldn't pass the edited genetics along to their spawn for free.  Some form of sterility, or inability to carry to term without - say, paying them to remove the inhibitor each time.  This would be a decision you made for your child before their birth.  It's a fairly standard GMO practice.  Otherwise, they'd go out of business fast.

I would have thought it would be implicit from the beginning. I mean, just because your best genes are active, doesn't mean they're going to recombine in the ideal way if you fuck someone, so I figured all reproduction would be done in that manner anyway. If you want the ideal genes, you can't trust your sperm and egg to figure that shit out on their own. So I thought it would go without saying that both the pseudo-sterility and monitored, lab-controlled gene-regulating reproduction would go without saying under that kind of system, and we'd all be better off for it.

I mean, that's basically how it was on Krypton in Man of Steel. Didn't seem very problematic.