Yes, I agree here, it's a matter of preference. Perhaps I could try to define the difference this way. Before the current changes (whatever they were actually caused by), you could give a short prompt and have a good chance the AI ​​would hallucinate something very colorful, detailed... in other words, the AI ​​would come up with everything itself. For example, I only had to write in the prompt that the character had several books on topic X on their shelf, and the AI ​​would already come up with the books titles in the post. All I had to do was writing that A and B were talking about topic C, and the AI ​​would come up with the entire dialogue between them itself. This saved time, and I thought that's what text generation is for – you provide something general (rather than writing a long prompt, thinking through every detail) and get a post based on it. Anyway, when the developer's last response to users was a month ago, you can't help but worry. And not only about what happened to the text generator.

I think it's normal for some to like the current state. The problem is, we still don't know whether this is a result of a bug or a deliberate change to the model. I've seen opinions on both sides.

As for the text, I'll try to give an example of why the current state looks terrible to me.

I opened a saved old scenario to check and asked the chat to regenerate one of the old posts.

The prompt, without going into details, was a group of people discussing a specific topic on a forum. The prompt was short and simply contained a few words about what the characters were saying.

Old version: based on just a few words from the prompt, a long, lively, colorful description was generated, with several previously non-existent characters speaking in different styles, clever use of italics and bold text, and it all looked like a real forum talking.

New regenerated version: a long, monotonous three-paragraph description containing no dialogue at all. It was simply a boring, dry description of what the prompt contained, along the lines of "A, B, and C gathered at a forum. They talked about D. They decided on E."

It was painfully boring to read.

Simply put, the texts completely lacked any flavor.