Even with the relatively strong tooling for 2D art it's still very difficult to push the generated image in novel directions though, hence the heavy reliance on

Even with the relatively strong tooling for 2D art it's still very difficult to push the generated image in novel directions though, hence the heavy reliance on LoRAs trained on prior examples. There doesn't seem to be an answer to "how would you create [artists] style with AI" that doesn't require [artist] to already exist so you can throw their life's work into a blender and make a model that copies it. I've found this to be observable in practice - I follow hundreds of artists who I could reliably name by seeing a new example of their work, even if they're only amateurs, but I find that AI art just blurs together into a samey mush with nothing to distinguish the person at the wheel from anyone else using the same models. The tool speaks much louder than the person supposedly directing it, which isn't the case with say Photoshop, Clip Studio or Blender.