Great trip ! Too short. It's addictive. Moebius is haunting this pictural flow, that's a pleasure. Long live to the Immortals.
About the process, concentrating on the quality of the init picture is definitely an efficient approach to get better result. I noticed it also these last days of experiments with StyleGan3 and IC-GAN. I have still to read carefully your advices on the previous post.

About the Colab overload... I think it is a momentum of freedom, another 'temporary autonomous zone' that will be soon regulated and restricted and marketed as a consequence of bot abuse which is a sign of business emporwment. Until you can run everything locally, all those tech tools migth fail or disppear tomorrow.
Anyway, being on this wave is great.
Greetz.