For me, the biggest issue this solves is the blank canvas paralysis problem. Artists are visual thinkers and need a little nudge in the right (art) direction. This is a great way to fill that blank sheet of paper with something that they can take and run with.

Thanks! Yeah hybrid is a way forward, dynamic stuff is not easy

> but I could imagine a hybrid mode where certain elements like grass and shrubbery are drawn with gaussians

Those tend to move in the wind. Animations don't work well with splats. Or with any data structure except polygon meshes.