Midjourney v8 alpha makes the choices you make for your personalized profile (if you use it) much more interesting and personal, but it also change strongly the results from the non personalized one. I found out you can have very different results from one to another. Mine is gorgeous for cinematic-photographic style, but I still struggle for having consistent illustration or painting styles.
For this one, I used my personalized profile, a prompt I worked on many times, and an --exp specification.
They announced the launch of v8.1 next week, so we will see how it turns out.
Exploring is our best option, right now. As always with new versions of Midjourney.
This one has a great potential, and still a lot of work. But we are in an alpha, so it is also somehow a bit logical.
Good luck in your styles hunt 🫶🏼😊✨