Seems to be a lot of superstition around prompts. Using longer prompts makes it feel like you're really casting a complex spell that makes you more advanced than a new user.
Then there's the whole "+masterpiece, +best quality, -bad hands, -extra limbs" superstition that comes from Danbooru-based models, but people coming on board just assume it's necessary everywhere.
Did we? Go grab a brush and some paint and create. The joy always come from the inside. If you can't seem to find it anymore inward is where you should look for it.
There are prompt books and prompt sites where you can buy them a dollar at a time. The hustle culture has built this fog of fake complexity and hidden methods in order to prop up their little cottage industry. Every AI Guy on TikTok has a way to "maximize your productivity with GPT" so you can "Start an AI company".
We haven't sucked the joy out of creating things, we've just tried to further commodify the process of creating and in turn spun a web of myths and lore where there didn't need to be any.
So... we've sucked the joy out of it.
Which should be obvious because a picture paints a thousand words…