Your experience is quite common, especially when new to prompting. You can get more control by checking prompt guides, but this still leaves a lot to be desired.
You seem to have missed the main point of the article this thread is based-on though. With img2img, you can input a kid-level MS paint input and control composition in detail. With inpainting you fix individual parts, with outpainting the surroundings/background. With text inversion, you can reuse successful parts in any context. People are even making the first videos and animations.
All of this is available today, not years from now. The workflows are still clumsy, but it's been a week. Many people are working on the UI to streamline all of this. You're severely underestimating progress.
You seem to have missed the main point of the article this thread is based-on though. With img2img, you can input a kid-level MS paint input and control composition in detail. With inpainting you fix individual parts, with outpainting the surroundings/background. With text inversion, you can reuse successful parts in any context. People are even making the first videos and animations.
All of this is available today, not years from now. The workflows are still clumsy, but it's been a week. Many people are working on the UI to streamline all of this. You're severely underestimating progress.