It's less versatile out of the box. Give it a couple months for the community to catch up. Everyone is still figuring out what goes where, and SD 1.x was "everything goes in one spot." It was cool and powerful, but limited.
SD2 wasn’t “neutered”, the piece of it from OpenAI that knew a lot of artist names but wasn’t reproduceable was replaced with a new one from Stability that doesn’t. You can fine-tune anything you want back in.
The training-set was nerfed really good as well, it wasn't just OpenCLIP that was replaced. They will successively re-admit more training data during the 2.x releases I guess.
Yes, they removed some NSFW which might've hurt it, but releasing models that can generate CP /will/ get you in legal trouble.
The "in the style of Greg Rutkowski" prompts from SD1 though, IIRC, were thought to be proof it was reproducing the training set. But it actually only saw ~27 images of his, and the rest was residual biases from CLIP.
Maybe a dumb question but can the old model still be run?