I mean, it is objectively more realistic, more detailed, handles lighting more naturally. But it’s also not the character the artist designed anymore, and is just modified at the last stage of rendering to be a generic llm ai character, by your gfx card. I don’t think we need our gfx cards deciding whether or not the protagonist is wearing red lipstick and rouge.

Same here, Godot has been such an improvement for me

Working through Perdido Street Station on my new Kobo. I understand the critiques on pacing, and spending too much time on world building as now, 400 pages in, races, sections of the city, creatures, and cultures are still being introduced. But it has been an enjoyable ride so far, especially with one of the main PoVs being one of my favorite tropes of just “scientist doing science”