Is photoshop ever going to have functional generative AI for editing?

The generative AI in Photoshop is still the worst in the industry at the highest price.  Is Adobe doing anything with all the generative credit money to actually make a product that is good for photo editing?

I am at the point where I would be OK with the generative credit thing if it actually generated what I needed, but paying credits, and then money for more credits, to get unusable slop is not acceptable from any angle, financial, moral, customer satisfaction…. take your pick.

Is there anything in the works to prevent credits from being used when the AI generates something that goes completely against the prompt and/or is completely unusable for the picture in question?

In the span of about 5 minutes I used 120 of my 250 credits making things that I just deleted immediately because they were unusable. Why should I have to pay or lose credits for that?

Here is a comparison of the output of a picture that I needed to edit quickly for an obituary and that I could not spend a lot of time on due to the immediacy of the situation.  This is a perfect situation for AI.  The eye on the right of the picture was deep in shadow and the poor family scan that I had to work with did not have detail that I could pull out to make a fix manually without redrawing the eye.  This was not something that absolutely needed to be done, but I wanted to do everything possible for the family.  The Firefly edit that I am showing here is the absolute best output of all of my attempts.  The ChatGPT edit was done on the first try.  The prompt specified the eye on the right of the picture.  Firefly changed the right eye, the left eye, the nose, the mouth, the skin tone, the hairline, and the ethnicity of the subject.  ChatGPT fixed the right eye, cleaned up the left eye without altering the shape at all, reduced the noise in the photo, and color corrected in a natural way while boosting clarity and details. It also slightly altered the ear shape, the tilt of the left eye, and the cheekbones, though slightly.  With one additional correction prompt these were fixed.  Most importantly, it gave me a matching right eye to work with if I just wanted to blend it into the original.

When if Photoshop going to catch up with the competition?  What is being done?  I need to hear something other than “constantly improving” or some other corporate junk.  I have been using Photoshop for over 20 years because it is the program that helped me do my job the best.  What can Adobe tell me that will reassure me that I am not wasting my money on Photoshop, and especially on the AI aspects?  I understand a premium price for a premium service, but this is as far from a premium service as you can get.

This is a legit question and not just a complaint.  I really want to know that 1. Adobe is aware of the problem, 2. There is actually work being done to specifically fix the problem, and 3. Adobe is aware of, and taking seriously, the problem of charging for services when they are not usable.  Half of my monthly credits went into making 6 completely useless image generations.  I was never asked if they were usable.  How about showing a preview of the generation before inserting it into a new layer, and not charging credits until the image is actually generated in a usable way and finalized into a new layer?  How about allowing prompt clarifications and edits without Photoshop thinking that I am asking it to make a new generation based on the previous bad generation?  These are things that are doable right now without major investment in the AI model, just in the way that it interfaces with the user and charges the user.  If Adobe does not have the resources to invest in AI focused on image editing instead of image generation, fine, but figure out how to avoid charging for junk generations in your flagship image editing software.  At least allow us to approve it before we are charged for it.