The price did not slip through, it was a deliberate choice.
And it's crazy to expect this price while a lot of labour was saved due to AI slop. People get fired and management takes big bonuses while the remaining workforces has to do overtime.
So their "fix" was to have an artist do a quick paint-over to remove the most egregious artifacts. Is that... actually any better? Just hire artists to make the damn paintings in the first place.