Hey @HH_Zere — totally get where you’re coming from.
There’s nothing lame about wanting to move fast — especially if you’re juggling limited time and just want to focus on building your world and gameplay.
Plugins like DASH are great for speeding up the visual side, but the concerns you raised about updates, licensing, and long-term scalability are very real. Many of us have run into similar frustrations, especially when working across different machines or teams.
In our case, we were building a fairly large world and realized that even more than visual generation, what started slowing us down was the lack of visibility into what’s been done, what’s broken, and who’s supposed to fix what — per asset.
That’s what led us to explore a different kind of plugin — more workflow-focused than visual — and it helped us stay organized inside Unreal without relying on Trello, Discord notes, or post-its on our screen 
If you’re building out large worlds, I’d definitely recommend checking out not just asset-generation tools, but anything that helps with clarity, task tracking, and collaboration inside the engine itself. It saves huge time in the long run.
Happy to share what worked for us if you’re curious — and definitely down to hear what kind of world you’re building. Sounds like a cool project already.
Keep going 