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Mine is KC registered with a trackable lineage but one of my best friends got a cockapoo a month before us and when I asked him he didn't even really know what the KC is let alone if the breeder was reputable.
I think the doodles are particularly bad at this, as they're so popular. We were looking on Pets4Homes for ours originally, and there's places we found which are perfectly legal but which meet every definition of puppy farms.
I wish I could remember her name, but for one of the sellers googling her separately lead to separate hits which let us piece together a much complained about company, based on a farm, employing only two people but housing something like 300 breeding dogs. And it had all the necessary council approvals for dog breeding so was apparently completely legal.
I thought that things like that were just outright illegal nowadays, but apparently not. The advert looked completely legit (pictures with a familly, in a kitchen etc) and meant that I couldn't look at anything from pets4homes after that - I assume they're all puppy / kitten farms.
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Another issue is anecdotally from puppy support groups I'm a member of, I've seen a huge increase in the amount of 'rescue' dogs being sent over from Romania and nearby countries because it's cheaper than paying for a pup bred here. I think some people are going to be taking on a much more difficult situation than they realise and I hope they don't all end up in rescues here.
Mine is KC registered with a trackable lineage but one of my best friends got a cockapoo a month before us and when I asked him he didn't even really know what the KC is let alone if the breeder was reputable.