> there's been zero progress on actually meaningfully integrating AI into artists' workflow.

This simply isn't true. An easy way someone who does most of their art more "traditionally" can use Krita to very much just use AI to help finish a project.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly6USRwTHe0

ComfyUI was also designed from the ground up to follow the same sort of node-based workflow that many CG artists are used to with things like Houdini, Blender, Substance Designer, etc., and includes all sorts of ways you can arbitrarily control where and how much the AI is used for.