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Modern wheats are different, but so are modern humans.
How have humans changed.
Farming was a monumental change in human lifestyle, and has a whole host of genetic legacy.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/11/151123202631.htm
There's degrees of difference. Wheat goes through a new generation every year. Faster if you have a greenhouse. People go through a new generation every few decades. Wheat can thus change 20-30 times faster than people.
A century is, at minimum, 100 different "iterations" of the wheat genome. A century is ~3 "iterations" of humans.
Human selection of wheat would probably converge, as in humans would keep selecting the best wheat until it reaches some kind of optimal, steady state, then it would change slower as the selection process would be more about preserving the state.