I don’t want to use LLMs. I feel the majority of use cases for LLMs are inauthentic, lazy, unhelpful, and uncreative.

Well, that’s just your opinion. Don’t accuse everybody else who are using it as evil psychopaths, under some “LLM psychosis”.

I personally use some form of LLM several times a week, and it saves time on programming and searches. The local image models out there allow me to create mostly whatever scene I want, usually about 80-90% of the way, and I spend a few hours trying to get that extra 10%. It turns my programming skill into something I can use towards art, instead of having to find some stock image online and use my poor image editing skills to create something that is mostly stolen, anyway.