Well, it ends up being a journey through different images pulled from the same noise, so yes, any smoothness results more from the degree to which the sampling

Well, it ends up being a journey through different images pulled from the same noise, so yes, any smoothness results more from the degree to which the sampling approach produces similar features when pulled towards slightly different target embeddings than from intrinsically the images being 'neighbors'. These low-step approaches probably preserve a lot less of the 'noise' features in the final image so latent space cruising is probably less fun.