I have this partially-formed hypothesis that artist backlash against generative AI crystalized largely in response to text-driven user interfaces. The art world has come to accept tools like Photoshop (and earlier, photography itself) that still share the aesthetics of traditional art creation. If MidJourney, ChatGPT, DALL·E, etc had interfaces along the lines of Nvidia Canvas from 2020 (pictured below), it would look enough like existing tools that critique would look purist and elitist. Art via command line, on the other hand, looks sufficiently Other that you can easily berate the users as Not Artists. "You just typed a few words, you aren't an artist!" has a better ring than "Your drawing skills rely on Photoshop somewhat more than mine, you aren't an artist!"