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If insects were actually efficient, they'd be processing them into tasteless protein powder already and nobody would know the difference. They already do it with milk, eggs, soybeans, peas, et cetera.

I suspect that the only true economic niche of insect foods is getting gross-out clicks for infotainment media. Existing insect-derived products range from expensive to unobtainium: carmine, silk, honey, resilin, spider silk. I guess shellac isn't that expensive.

If fast food starts slipping bugs into your food without many people noticing, it will become mainstream.

If it's cheap, non-perishable and transports well, it will have a big market.

Especially if it's marketed to hell. People will eat dogshit if it's promoted enough.

Not really

Bacon, McDonalds, HFCS, ...

You could use benign muscle tumor cells if GMO is unpalatable. These kinds of tumors are common in beef cattle. Might be in your burger already.

That doesn't sound more palatable than GMOs?