What if I've tried to increase the prompt adherence in <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/models/795765/illustrious-xl">Illustrious v0.1</a> and its siblings? It's only a test though, because I'm not entirely sure if I did it correctly. :)Left image - original checkpoint, right image - modified checkpoint. It seems the 'characteristics' of the original remain in the modified model, but prompt adherence is better for the most part.Another observation - VAE inclusion gets 'reset', the resulting checkpoint doesn't have it.

Illustrious v0.1 and its variants sprinkled with Illustrious v2.0-Stable CLIP

Freshly released <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civitai.com/models/1025051?modelVersionId=1942437">Illustrij v16 checkpoint merge</a> is interesting, because it 'understands' prompts a bit better, than <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civitai.com/models/1025051?modelVersionId=1850327">v15</a>, but at the same time, with the third test image, the model doesn't 'see' bedroom word at this seed with BOTH CLIPs - the one in the merge and the one from <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civitai.com/models/1489531/illustrious-xl-v20-stable">Illustrious v2.0-Stable</a> (or <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civitai.com/models/1369089/illustrious-xl-20">v2.0</a>). It's interesting - even though the differences aren't prominent, 'stability' increased a tad bit. :)

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