Andy M.

i tried flux2 locally and on replicate, even the official bfl pro version there. It's kind of ... bad?! It wasn't just a early comfyui or fp8 issue. It borders on unusable (at these things) . it can't do hands arms limbs, it can't do multiple people in an image without making a mess.

as for krea, i use lora trained on dev, they usually work, it's bit hit and miss though on clothing for example. cranking them up higher to overcome Krea's trademark scruff looks often helps. But of course within the limitations of dev, srpo also works with dev loras. it's kinda depended which one works better in a case. This vast eco system is the big advantage for flux.1 modifications over 2.

the very best flux in almost all aspects is krea. beyond the visuals it can do so much more than Flux1.Dev and srpo. Unlike SRPO it isn't just a visual enhancement. I know it's not a base model, but it is also a standalone flux model. Compatible with Flux loras and Redux.

try anything dirty or damaged or ripped (like: a man in a dirty, damaged shirt... ) in .1 dev (or pro btw) and you can see it's desperate attempts to simulate something it('s text encoder) is aware off but it just can't do. Unlike even some ancient SDXL models btw.
Krea is in terms of prompts it can follow not a million miles away from qwen image. Downsides: It makes clothes with structure or patterns often TOO gritty and scruffy, and people never actually look at each other.

But of course, at a dramatically higher cost, Flux2 should indeed vastly better ( but NOT compatible with any old loras.
(little update: i have not seen a model make such a MESS of hands and limbs in multi subject scenes since SDXL or Flux Schnell). We are actually back in six finger land. I hope that are new-model early issues.

what if you then ptq the qat model? are the usual ptq precision loss problems back, are they worse?

here is the issue with that: people, common or not, exploit and opress people. all you need is some level of power and control over ther people. Corporations a re a completely unnecessary part of that.
Blaming stuff on "corporations" or "politics" is too cheap and convenient. that is letting normal "people" off the hook. It may hurt to realise this but corporations are just normal people with more power.

And the reason censorship in (corporate ai models) has gotten even more out of hand than the cultural censorship you actually mean is "people". Google has no inherent interest in being "woke", they just follow politics and media and few but loud screaming "common people" who got us in this suffocation ott PC mess.

And into the annoyed backlash against it, which brought the rise of far rights everywhere.