I agree. I am barely excited for DALL-E 3 because I know it's going to be run by OpenAI who have repeatedly made me dislike them more and more over the last year plus. My thoughts are: "Cool. Another closed system like MidJourney. Chat integration would be cool but it's still going to likely be crazy expensive per image versus infinite possibilities with Stable Diffusion."
Especially with DALL-E. Honestly I'd be more excited if MidJourney released something new. DALL-E was the first but, in my experience, the lower-quality option. It felt like a toy, MidJourney felt like a top-tier product akin to Photoshop Express on mobile, still limited but amazing results every time, and Stable Diffusion feels like photoshop allowing endless possibilities locally without restrictions except it's FREE!
Especially with DALL-E. Honestly I'd be more excited if MidJourney released something new. DALL-E was the first but, in my experience, the lower-quality option. It felt like a toy, MidJourney felt like a top-tier product akin to Photoshop Express on mobile, still limited but amazing results every time, and Stable Diffusion feels like photoshop allowing endless possibilities locally without restrictions except it's FREE!