Sora shutdown drives local style control

This is really a style-conditioning problem, not a vanilla image-edit job. The user wants the model to stay inside a narrow visual grammar while inventing new subjects, and that usually takes more capacity than lightweight edit presets provide.

• –Small edit models tend to copy the reference too closely or collapse into generic doodles when the style constraint is strong.
• –The community advice to pair a larger FLUX edit model with a style LoRA is the right instinct.
• –ComfyUI is the right orchestration layer, but only if the workflow treats the reference image as a persistent style anchor.
• –If bandwidth is tight, it is smarter to validate one strong base model and one LoRA than to download every checkpoint.
• –Sora's image-generation sunset makes the fallback urgent for anyone who built a repeatable cloud art-direction loop.