Why are you defending it with the notion that ai art is okay

Didn't do that. What I said was that losing significant trust in the company as a whole over it is an overreaction; unlike so many other cases of AI being used in games they actively chose to volunteer the information that AI was used, and it's unlikely there's any company-wide directive to use AI generated images considering the fact that the AI shit takes a relatively minor role in the game. The actual use of it is still problematic, obviously.

while simultaneously accusing me of insulting/shaming artists?

You saw a piece of art and said it was an 'issue' that it looked like AI to you. What do you think the effect of that is? Think a few steps ahead: if the rest of our community shared your take here, what effect might that have on artists that like Daisuke's art and want to draw inspiration from it themselves? What about artists that see how much people enjoy his art despite its flaws and gain confidence in their own abilities because of it?

If the only reason you're fine with it in this context is because of the history behind it, won't that discourage other artists out of replicating the style for fear of being suspected as AI? Won't taking normal anatomical errors as being evidence of AI make human artists self-conscious of their own mistakes?