I don't think you really understand the asset workflow or why artists lovingly draw things. The artist pipeline usually spits out massively over detailed asset

I don't think you really understand the asset workflow or why artists lovingly draw things. The artist pipeline usually spits out massively over detailed assets. Everything from cuticles to the roughness on scales comes out of an artist's model. Making a usable asset from that is almost always a task of reduction not iterative addition.