The reality of things is that it's incredibly hard to do things solo. If I didn't use AI for image generation this game likely wouldn't be made. It's a huge step up in complexity to work with someone else on things like art & asset creation.
I'm doing this for fun and have no desire to benefit from it monetarily. I've gone to moderate lengths to put enough work in both on the asset generation side and coding/gamplay side for this to not be complete slop, but if you want to apply that label indiscriminately then that's up to you.