All progress is progress. If your model is better but stable diffusion has all these tools that let you more practically generate the images you want, a whole web UI that's got years of development in it?

Your advanced model becomes a toy, like creating a Twitter clone on your local machine.

You then have to recreate all these things like control net, because I know for sure that this fine tuned control is way more important than a jump in base model quality.

This is why open source kicks ass. The SD people don't have to be the best, not with a community floating them.