>>106287610
Qwen had the potential, I truly wanted to believe in it. But its supposed superior prompt adherence/art loses all potential when you can't properly prompt for artists. That means the model is highly reliant on LoRAs, same as Flux. And there's nothing wrong with Flux art/anime LoRAs aesthetically, it's SOTA on that department. Qwen was overbaked so it lacks variety. Its biggest flaw is that it's bigger than Flux dev while being censored. That means that it will likely never get a finetune. It doesn't matter that the community has seemingly adopted the model and mistaken it for a Flux replacement. The same community has neglected Chroma which simply is a much better replacement from a technical standpoint. Why? Because they tried it once, got a shit result and gave up on it. I also almost gave up on it quickly, but then I gave Chroma solid chance after being impressed by a 1girl result that I would never get out of a model like Flux. Since then, it has blown me away and handles everything I throw at it, I have not had a need to go back. The gap between this model and censored is pretty big, there are many different types of prompts, even softcore that only Chroma can handle. Got a style that it's missing? No problem, just train a LoRA. I feel like everyone at some point will have their Chroma discovery moment, but they have to give the model a chance.