1. Hiring a human illustrator is the right thing to do, and I applaud this guy.

2. AI kinda ruined this style for me. The first thing I did when I saw it was start searching for AI incongruities which is sad.

The really sad thing is that the natural instinct for many will be to screenshot the page and upload it with "please create me a home assistant dashboard in this style".

I spent last 2 months in construction stores. A good chunk of people drop a size in claude/chatgpt, and put tiles in their existing picture etc.

You can feel differently but it saves you so much money, time, and bring you so much pleasure. Not the other way around.