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There is no commercially grown GMO wheat. I have no idea where you heard this nonsense. And within different non-modified wheat varieties, gluten content varies greatly. Ex. Hard, red winter wheat has more gluten and is often used as bread flour. There is no incentive to breed wheat for higher gluten content anyway.

You're wrong on both accounts.

1) A GMO wheat currently is used. It's called Renan. 2) Higher gluten flour is desirable for bread products such as pizza. I make my own pizza. The best pizza bread is made from high-gluten flour.

Correction: Artificial selection and contemporary milling processes have increased the gluten content. Not from GMO.

I assume you mean certain varieties of GMO wheat have high gluten content? There's nothing about GMO itself that would cause that, it's a matter of what they decide to change.