I disagree with that as a blanket statement. Humans have always used tools to augment our artistic capabilities, and AI is just the newest, shiniest tool. The fact that corps want to replace human artists with machines for cost cutting does not invalidate use cases like an independent singer-wongwriter from generating an album cover for themselves based on their lyrics.
I do like Connect, I just hope they add some QOL features RIF had like thread collapsing, being able to change default download folders, link preview, probably other things I'll think about later. Great start, though!
I second Micro Center's house brand, it's been really reliable in my Ender 3.