Go on CivitAI and sort by popular... There is an awful lot of nudity and anime, and SDXL struggles with both. For censored SFW image generation, DALL-E 3 now beats out SDXL by a wide margin. The SDXL resource requirements are somewhat of an issue as well, 8 GB cards barely work and that is still the largest consumer market segment.
SDXL's only real differentiation now is the ability to locally host and avoid the OpenAI / Microsoft censorship filter. Leaning into that would be a smart decision, although maybe it conflicts with Stability's attempts to raise money.
> Go on CivitAI and sort by popular... There is an awful lot of nudity and anime, and SDXL struggles with both
Whether the base model does them well or not, there were (and very quickly after release) far more resources (checkpoints, LoRa, TI) for both for SDXL than the ever were based on the 2.x base models.
SDXL's only real differentiation now is the ability to locally host and avoid the OpenAI / Microsoft censorship filter. Leaning into that would be a smart decision, although maybe it conflicts with Stability's attempts to raise money.