Openness for me. Stable diffusion runs on a machine that sits 5 feet away from me and delivers good quality results in under 3 seconds per image. I don't have t

Openness for me. Stable diffusion runs on a machine that sits 5 feet away from me and delivers good quality results in under 3 seconds per image. I don't have to shy away from politically (or otherwise) questionable prompts, or in the case of business applications, potentially leaking sensitive data, because I know that they aren't being recorded forever on a remote server somewhere. I can also tinker with the code, which has helped me add a bunch of features that really synergize with my workflow. As others have noted, getting good results from SD is very much a numbers and parameters game. I've witnessed first hand how some people get frustrated easily and quit tinkering because their initial approaches don't work right away. Prompt and parameter engineering really is a skill that you have to grow, and it makes a world of difference. img2img is also much finickier than text2img.