You're right. Before gen-AI people just had blank backgrounds. There were no stock photos or sketches people could give credit to to act as placeholders. Thank you gen-AI, your plagiarism software has given us things we've never had before.
Oh wait.
To be perfectly clear, AI is kind of a giant, glaring red flag that you don't care about quality. It's like you're just telling me that you aren't interested in putting in the effort into making your game good, so why should I care about playing it?
also like, so long as they're accepting money at any stage for their game, even in the future or for donations/crowdfunding etc, it's a commercial product. I'd rather give my time and money towards stuff that's actually good.