The people who like the aesthetics and realism of AI images and take that as a reason to concentrate on AI and not on 3d rendering should first of all learn making better pictures.

AI pictures are not better than 3d renders. They are just easier to produce. 90% of all 3d renders here in the gallerie and on other platforms are poor childish examples of an immature view of women executed with no knowledge about lighting, composing and rendering a scene.

With a 3d render you have 100% of controle over the result. You can tell a story or do something realy personal. Just the fact that the most 3d renders are absolut rubbish doesn't mean that it has to be like that.

You can give up and use your free time to write promps and enjoy something every other person on this planet can do exactly like you with the same result, or you learn an artform and create something new, inspiring and interesting.

In art, not only the result counts but also the path to it.

When you have spend many hours of thinking how a certain light affects the mood of an image it will also change your way of looking at art of the great masters.

It's like composing and playing a peace of music or consuming a playlist on spotify. Both can be fun, but it's not the same thing.