Midjourney 8.2 still leads on aesthetics as image models split into two use cases
hq4ai · x · 2026-10-07
On the day banana 2.1 launched, the author argues Midjourney remains irreplaceable for aesthetic stylization, with version 8.2 leading by a wide margin. For precision-oriented images — text covers, diagrams, info cards — OpenAI and Google models are clearly better. He sees the market fully split into two distinct need categories.
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