Nailed it.

It also allows technical types who are more engineering focused (think John Carmack) to allow AI to do a lot of the artistic heavy lifting for them. This should -- theoretically -- help bridge the workflow for guys who know their way around a great coding library but have little in the way of artistic skills.

Having AI generate 2D sprite sheets, animation cells, or character templates can greatly increase the speed of development of some games.

It's an inevitability, despite what the Rainbow Reich would lead people to believe. Hilariously the news is now spreading that Expedition 33 was made for less than 10 million, and it looks, runs, and plays better than all of the AAA slop released this year.

As smaller teams make use of generative pipelines to speed up production, there is going to be a massive divide in the quantity of quality titles coming from small studios making proper use of AI. The only ones who will be left doing things the "old way" are those spending Concord-levels of product budgets on faggot-filled slop for a modern audience that doesn't exist.