@beardalaxy I think they really wanted to focus AI because otherwise custom content would require users to have some basic scripting knowledge, which is extremely uncommon for the target demographic of this type of game. It's a brilliant idea in theory, but in practice it results in a ton of bugs and AI hallucination and as @SuperDicq said, if effectively renders the game SaaS, otherwise it would require a REALLY beefy PC to run.
Though AI facial animations are just some useless gimmick for creating social media videos.