Can I play with it then, to verify that myself? Or can I just view cherry-picked examples where it works sort of well?
That's one of the major flaws of nn approaches, since you don't have an understanding of what's going on, just an uninterpretable set of billions of numbers, you can't know what are the failure modes and the limitations of your algorithm.
This allows collaboration between the use and the algorithm to iteratively converge on what the user wants. There's also been lots of exploration to find text prompt recipes that produce interesting and more consistent results.
In the end, it's a tool! Tools are used by humans to do something that matters to the human user. Humans adapt to the tools they use to maximize the tool's utility.
Understanding that is fundamental for thinking about where ML will take us. It's not magic, it's tools.
Exactly, at the very least, that will massively disrupt the fields of illustration and concept art.