Actually, I've always liked bitter marmalade, and prefer a high fruit content and little sugar.
These days, I sometimes buy genuinely homemade marmalade in the farmers' market, and - I recall that my mother had made marmalade occasionally when I was a child.
For that matter, on a few occasions, over a couple of years, in the early 90s, shortly after my mother had retired - working together, we made homemade three fruit marmalade with Seville oranges, (which are the classic "marmalade" orange, they are in season for a short while in late January, early February and are suitably bitter), grapefruit and lemon.
Very labour intensive, time consuming - this took place over a few nights - but great fun and seriously delicious.
And now, it is a lovely memory.
I remember the shared laughter, and cheerful chat, as we sliced fruit, saved pips (for natural gelatine), and saved the fruit juice, and then dashing in to watch STNG (which my mother and I both loved), while we waited for the marmalade to "set", checking on it every twenty minutes, or half hour.
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