The "iterate from there until you get something you like" requires a great deal of experience working with the model. Personally I've spent at least 100 hours i

The "iterate from there until you get something you like" requires a great deal of experience working with the model. Personally I've spent at least 100 hours in total messing with SD, with an eye towards understanding it and improving at using it, and I still wouldn't say I'm "good at it" in the sense of being able to create something that really looks how I want it to look (I'm not an artist though). Imagine going back to 1960 and showing a programmer modern JavaScript. Surely this new "JavaScript" thing will completely replace programmers! I mean, what use is a programmer when someone can just describe their program in a language that looks almost like English (relative to this stack of punchcards I've been working with!). The user doesn't have to spend time fiddling with memory management. Complex algorithms like search and sort are abstracted away into simple functions. Why, implementing all that was 99% of a programmer's job! Sure, you still have to format the program in a particular way, but any random John should be capable of that with a little tweaking! And you know, the old programmer would kind of be correct. It takes no less than two weeks to learn React and throw together a decent webapp now (not an enterprise-scale webapp, but a good proof of concept). Despite this 99% reduction to the barrier of entry, there's still a lot of paid work for web developers.