Heh. How funny. I will gladly look on how you'll drown in bog of development, which is going to be deeper cause of your decision. You're not the first.
I'm harrased regularly. Even by some people I'm often talk to. There are plenty of people who will flick me like a bug from the table because I'm using neural networks to create, they don't even try to trust me, that I'm not another one slopper. After this I just don't want to go easy on people with other opinions.
I don't think that you will actually care about it, but maybe you will at least understand it.
He said "I will gladly look on how you'll drown in bog of development" which isn't jaded. He is actively cheering the dev's and the game's misfortune. That's 100% hostile, and driven purely by the fact that the developer would prefer to use their own skills to develop the art assets instead of a machines. They didn't even disparage AI art, they just said they didn't plan on using it!
Also "drawing takes time therefore it leads to development hell" isn't an objective truth, not at all. Drawing your own art will extend time compared to stealing it yeah, but that doesn't automatically mean development hell. That's has a specific definition encampassing many issues like: scope creep, changing priorities, student syndrome, spaghetti code, shifting scope, and more. Saying drawing means development hell is like saying driving cars means car accidents. You can drive a car and never have an accident, and you can be involved in an accident whilst not driving cars. I've seen games with AI generated assets also enter development hell. And games with no art assets also face the same problem.
You make a good point. It's sad so many people get so...hostile, regarding this. Personally, I like the look of certain Ai artworks, but I also understand how it is a touchy subject. Not steering one way or the other on whether there is ai generated content in a work, I think whatever the dev wants the most should be what happens, as that usually will lead to a better product...within reason. Still, thanks for pointing that out, I misread what he said, and came to a different conclusion.