I feel like this is valid criticism for Dall-e, but not so much for stable diffusion. Stable diffusion (and to a lesser extent midjourney) exposes a LOT more k

I feel like this is valid criticism for Dall-e, but not so much for stable diffusion. Stable diffusion (and to a lesser extent midjourney) exposes a LOT more knobs to tune. Layer on controlnet and other extensions, and you can really iteratively refine an image to get closer and closer to what you want. The key is to be able to 'lock in' a depth map, rough composition, seed, etc, and then tune the other parameters to refine what you're looking for. It's definitely not a one-shot solution, but its still miles faster than learning how to do digital painting and manually rendering things. I don't feel like it matters if you have to generate 16 images to find one to start building off of when each image can be rendered in 1/1000th the time a human could.