I think he kinda makes that point with his personal thinking on backgrounds. He doesn’t do them. Maybe AI can help there, maybe not, but there are also amazing background artists just as there are very good character artists you could, but likely wouldn’t afford, for your tabletop RPG. And those will be… acceptable as a visualisation, even if not quite a piece of inspired art.
I think he kinda makes that point with his personal thinking on backgrounds. He doesn’t do them. Maybe AI can help there, maybe not, but there are also amazing background artists just as there are very good character artists you could, but likely wouldn’t afford, for your tabletop RPG. And those will be… acceptable as a visualisation, even if not quite a piece of inspired art.