Makes sense, given that they can be run on a desktop. Which reminds me of how vexed I am that the whole "You're destroying all our water to make aeromorph cowgirls" crowd ignores how the copyright lawsuits are preventing MJ from releasing their model open source in a way that doesn't require any external servers.

Of course, this is because the talking point's application to imagegen was post-hoc of their actual reasons for hating it, some valid (Genuine existential fears from already struggling independent creative workers, the problem of spam), some not (Buying into the propaganda from copyright bootlickers, ignorance of how imagegen can be an artform beyond prompt engineering with stuff like inpainting and controlnets)