that seems strange to me because slushyanimals is very anti ai and im assuming a lot of the other artists you draw inspiration from are too. maybe you should scrap the art and go the club route. you would also be able to write more combinations for traits and forms or even tfs for the other npcs without having to generate a bunch of new images each time. food for thought (if that is the right saying)
I hear you. I just think that including art of some kind still helps add to the game, and while I can't say I have the skills to make any proper art, I have played other games like this that make great use of AI art. So even if actual art would be preferable, I still believe that including it is better than nothing. I'm also still up for commissioning some art for this game at some point, and giving an option to view the game that way, but that will probably come quite a bit later.