huh, odd, I must be seeing things because at the time I type this, none of the people complaining about the use of AI to generate pictures, rather than spending hundreds of dollars on good pre-made models or thousands of hours teaching yourself how to draw, have a developer tag, it's almost like they never made a VN before, but surely that isnt the case from their pointed criticism of the use of a tool to generate art for a project that is most assuredly not the devs primary job.
The levels of toxic entitlement on this site sometimes still manages to surprise me . Unless you are literally paying the dev for their work, you have zero right to demand anything, just tick the AI CG in the Exclude Tags section and go on with your day.
Personally Ill take AI art over Honey Select, The Sims or Second Life any day of the week.
Dev my personal opinion, not that its worth more or less than anyone elses, make the game you want to make, include the content you want to include, Ive been on this site long enough to know that no matter WHAT you do, someone is gonna find a reason to demand you cater to their specific fetishes and remove all the stuff they dont like, if you dont, they are gonna hound you on these forums because they have nothing better to do.
Bending to the whim of Johnny Kleenex who wants some hyper niche kink and acts like everyone wants it and how dare you leave it out and not take out this other hyper niche kink, is just gonna piss off Jimmy Vasoline who likes his hyper niche kink.