I had recently gotten back into FC pregmod recently, except this time I decided to use the Stable Diffusion option over the other ones, and it feels like my experience was suddenly incredibly enhanced? While I can play these sort of games with just text alone, if pictures are involved and they're good (to me), it makes the experience just that much better. Or at least it actually made me more attached to my slaves than usual if they had a good generation.
On that note, were there plans from the pregmod devs to include the Illustrious model? I don't use the 'realistic' model checkpoints but rather make them more anime-looking, and half the time only the Hassaku SD1.x model works properly while other SD1.x, SDXL and even Pony models tend to vary immensely on quality (which I suppose makes sense, the info page did specify what models work best for it and Hassaku is the only 'anime-like' model mentioned). Main reason being that this made me dabble a bit into AI art generation via ComfyUI (A1111 seems to eat a ton of resources and sometimes crashes eventually on my Nvidia 1080Ti with 8gb ram, whereas I've never had issues doing the same generation on ComfyUI), and what started with just the three models recommended for FC purposes had expanded to 15 different models now. But most of them are Illustrious models because they are more consistent in proper anime-like generation while also not having weird fused people or generating two people when you're only prompting for one (which Hassaku SD1.x model still does with the FC default auto-prompts). I often end up either entering a heavily emphasised hyperrealism negative prompt (despite it always appearing in positive), or else just manually enter in my own prompts based on the generated prompts instead.
Also while it's out of scope for the FC and would probably be better off as its own standalone version, but I feel like there could be an 'extra difficult' version where the PC doesn't run the Arcology like a normal Free City, but rather a mixture or even closely to the Old World by attempting to implement 'Old World morals' and such. Like for example, not all slaves being sex slaves (a kind of special indentured servant, where sex is no go? Or as an 'Old World Future Society'). The idea being that the PC took over the Arcology not because they're just that rich and powerful to do it and wanted to live the sex slave harem life, but kind of see it as their personal duty to try to 'save' slaves from their fate? I guess similar to the primary goal of the Daughters, except you're the one in charge.