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Cross two dogs and get the worst of both worlds.
Thinking you'll get the best of each is just wishful thinking. There's no reason in genetics that you'd get what you want from each, and several reasons you'd get what you don't want.
The only dependable way to fix a trait is line breeding over many generations.
It's foolish to think you can just shortcut the decades of work and mix dogs like a recipe.
Your dog, do what you like.
You're a dirtbag if you're not committed to the result -- every puppy for their lifetime, meaning you keep them yourself or take them back when any new owner dumps them.
Dogs can cost many tens of thousands of bucks over their lifetime. A good dog costs far more than that in time, but is worth every penny and every minute.
I wouldn't make a 15+ year five-figure commitment to an experiment that's shown to be undependable time and time again.
If you don't actually know what a good dog is, get around some people that are totally committed to working dogs or sport dogs in the discipline that's relevant to you - people who have widely-recognized accomplishments with the dogs. None of them do dogs as a hobby. It's a life-consuming, full-time with overtime occupation. Even with that kind of investment there are ups and downs. You don't have to be like that. Not many people want to be like that or go through that. If you learn to respect what they do, that they know what is in a dog because they spent every hour of every day pushing to find out what was in a dog and not just making a casual observation from inexperience, then you will appreciate the results they get in contrast to what the part-time amateur backyard breeder gets.