OpenAI’s (Microsoft’s) DALL-E 3 has improved bigly on DALL-E 2 – however it also has changed styles a bit. If you compare with the age-old images from a year ago, the images are much higher quality, but what meant “expressive” back then isn’t the same anymore.
For the prompt “an expressive oil painting of two software developers working on their notebooks, depicted as an explosion of a nebula” you now get something that certainly doesn’t look like an oil painting (several other attempts look very similar).
Trying to improve upon this with the prompt “a van-gogh style oil painting of two software developers working on their notebooks, depicted as an explosion of a nebula”, that’s the result (somehow, van Gogh style is equivalent to “starry night”).