Images 2.0 isn't anywhere close to the kind of detail control I'm talking about.
It's the opposite of a skill issue. No image generator is anywhere near the ballpark of pro-level manual Photoshop or Illustrator editing for individual elements in an image.
If you don't understand this, try precisely kerning the text in a generated book cover to handle letter combinations like A and V.
This is one of the big problems with GenAI. You can do new things with it, but it's crude Dunning Kruger good-enough-if-you-don't-ask-for-more creativity.
The pros can see what most people can't, and the flaws and missing features are frustrating and obvious creatively, not just in terms of production values.
I fail to see anything other than a skill issue.
We went from "AI can't generate text that isn't at least 20% typos and it always looks like shit" to "some letter combinations aren't kerned to perfection sometimes and adjusting that with prompts is hard". In a couple of generations.