Have you actually tried batch rendering in Firefly for client proofs? lol I found out the hard way that if you need to churn out 50 variations of a product shot in an hour, Firefly is the only sane option. Midjourney gives you way better detail for sure, but waiting on queue times for those high quality outputs when you're on a deadline is a nightmare. I keep both subscriptions now. MJ for hero images and Firefly for the boring stuff nobody sees.

Oh man, tell me about it! Auto-save has betrayed me more times than I care to count. I've lost whole lesson plans because the program decided to "save" right as my laptop battery died. The timer trick is smart, I might have to steal that from you. There's just something about watching those progress bars that makes me nervous, you know?