I hope it gets released. Personally I'm tired of "base models" that lack aesthetic and just sit there for years waiting for finetunes that never come. I just want a local model that looks good without having to cope with mandatory style loras. Tired of the the plastic skin, the sameface, the removal of art from datasets, the lack of output variation. I miss the early phase of AI art when it was about mixing painters and aesthetics around to achieve cool results, rather than moving nodes around to try and fix the artificial skin.