>>96746165
It's not worse, it's less powerful, and that's an outright buff when you're dealing with uncontrollable omnipotence. The unrestrained condensate is just that, unrestrained. All the power in the world is of no use to anyone if you can't control it. The Hare is the one who had the condensate, and they lived on this world for maybe a day before dying - according to the CYOA - under the strain of their own constantly growing power. The early witches were all reality warpers who died young because they had more power than anyone could handle.

I'm reminded of the Ethshar books, where wizardry is powered by the chaos of the universe. So it's the infinite screaming energy of everything, carefully channeled through spells in the same way the ocean is carefully channelled through a hole in the hull of a submarine. Upside is the wizard can never run out of power, any spell can be repeated endlessly back to back. Downside, if you fuck up your next door neighbours will not the body because both it and they have been reduced to a fine nuclear powder.
Creating new spells is so freaking dangerous that people who make it their profession have life expectancies measured in weeks. One guy tried to make a spell for sharpening swords and ended up accidentally creating a enourmous pillar of flame which has been burning for eight hundred years and shows no sign of stopping.

The exotic painter is able to do what the early witches and the Hare could not, use the full breadth of the condensate by outsourcing the 'control' part to something external.