Midjourney is decidedly underwhelming if you've spent any time using the expansive tooling and control nets of Stable Diffusion. Yes, it's easy to get impressive first gens with MJ, but all of the coolest work and integration happening is using SD.
It depends. For great looking pics that you need to get out quickly MJ does a great job. Especially with its image + text feature. Dalle is also an interesting choice.
SDXL and controlnet is odd a lot of the time. 1.5 + controlnet still seem to give quicker and better results.
Basically SD atleast seems to be for when you want unique content. MJ/Dalle for everything else.
Fooocus is definitely more beginner friendly. It does a lot of the prompt engineering for you. Automatic1111 has a ton of plugins, most notably ControlNet which gives you fine grained control over the images, but there is a learning curve.
