is it actually any good or is it only reserved for people with tons of patience and prompt know-how?

I've fired up Midjourney a bunch of times and outside of fantasy landscapes, it has never managed to make anything useful in my actual work.

GPT-4 is increasingly going the same way too. I'm not sure if I'll renew the subscription.

Getting a little jaded of these hyped up announcements that are largely nothing more than cool tech demos.