Ahh, i got so confused, cos some annoying things i havn't seen since old model popped up, but might just have been one prompt that forced that part again, but yes after some testing I see the pictures over all is still good.
I've had the opposite going on, i feel i can very much specify what i want a character to look like, if i don't want surgical lips, i'll just tell the AI to generate her with natural lips, but this model is way more detail oriented, it wants a detailed description of what you want to see, if you supply that, it's really nice, only big downside is that it's slow.
I agree that the new model is better, at least for what i'm using it for, i like descriptive themes, and the old model just ended up with "something in the ballpark" which was great for a free generator, but the new one, even if it's slow, is so much better at giving me what i actually want.
Not sure what people complaining about the new model is on about, sure it's quite a bit slower but so much more accurate, it rewards descriptive descriptions, and even less descriptive tends to turn out good imo.