Its the same reason my phone maps still tries to route me through a dead end road by my house that got closed two years ago. These systems get trained on patterns but they dont actually get whats real on the ground, like Phoenix traffic at 4pm or the fact that a crew cant just teleport between jobs. The buffer rule thing kills me too because thats such a simple ask, just add the drive time, and it acts like you never told it. Youre basically babysitting a tool that was supposed to save you time.

But here's the thing, none of that changes what the image actually is at the end. A guy typing prompts and someone editing for 6 hours both end up with a file that a computer generated the base of, so the 6 hours thing feels like a cope to me. People act like adding elbow grease makes it a different category when really it's just different amounts of the same thing. And if we start saying effort is what makes art real, then a dude who spends 40 hours on a paint by numbers is suddenly Picasso. The line you're looking for doesn't really exist, you just found one group that works harder and decided they're on your side now.