Indeed. I think the issue is so much of what people see is just the 'slop', which can be produced in such volume by people who really don't care much for the outcome. It distorts the perception of it a lot.

(similarly with the comment about 'it's about as hard as using google'. Yeah, if you're trying about as hard as googling something then the result is probably not going to be very interesting, but that's more effort than went into most AI generated images that you'll see on the internet)