I have se suspicion that a lot of AI enthusiasts are just people with no ability to picture things in their mind. They can finally put into an image the thing they were thinking about and feel like it is a revolutionary technology.
Look at what a lot of AI spammers create, the image equivalent of a single sentence. For anyone with the ability to imagine these images are severely lacking and offer little value, but for a lot this is the first time they can mimic imagining a photo realistic apple in their heads.

I'm not against AI image generation, but I see it as the invention of the typewriter, having access to it does not give you the ability to create a great novel; AI image generators can create actual art, but only when used by people with the capacity to create art, for everyone else they are just slop machines.