Because the devs like ai slop and don't really care that it puts more people off than attracts people. How many people will ai slop potentially put off? How many people would stay because of the ai slop banner image? This is pretty poor risk:reward imo

Talk is cheap. Send me a new image and I will change if it is better than the AI slop.

Literally anything you can randomly pick copyright free on unsplash is immediately better: https://unsplash.com/images/stock/royalty-free

The problem is that these are not better than ai slop because you seem to like AI slop, so I doubt you'll find anything better than: