Midjourney has been the better base model since v3. When SD came out, i wouldn't say it was unarguably the better model (against Dall-E), and in fact Dall-E had

Midjourney has been the better base model since v3. When SD came out, i wouldn't say it was unarguably the better model (against Dall-E), and in fact Dall-E had noticeably better prompt understanding but the extra control and free open source nature gave it the edge over Dall-e which still hadn't been out of waitlist yet. as for midjourney, there's just currently no comparison. The only thing i'd say is that the new Dall-E (usable through Bing image creator) and a new model called Kandinsky 2.1 are much better than all the base SD models (incl the new XL)