First of all, thank you for playing!
I know that AI generated images are a big turn-off for a lot of people; that's one of the reasons why I've tagged the game as precisely as possible with "AI generated" and marked the fields that itch.io gives me to serve as filters for everyone, as I don't want to deceive anyone into playing it without knowing.
I see AI as a tool that allows me, a person able to program and write, to create games with pictures without needing to learn to draw for a long time or having to pay a big amount to an artist. The game is free, and I'm not earning an amount that would let me hire someone to draw so many transformations.
The potion mixing aspect you are commenting on is interesting; some of the potions ended up being vague combinations while others were a more direct approach, but I can picture a game that is more centered around the "concept" mixing than pure "feature" mixing.
To be honest, I'm proud of the secret ingredients. I know that they are not that easy to find, but that's the fun thing. I wanted them to be hidden in plain sight, to be hard to find but rewarding!
Again, thank you for giving it a chance, but I must tell you that, if you are looking for something with hand-drawn or digitally drawn images, that's not your game. Learning how to program and improving (slowly) my writing feels much simpler than learning how to draw.