Peak quality in terms of realistic color rendering was probably the initial release of DALL-E 3. Once they saw what was going to happen, they fixed that bug fast.
It absolutely did not do that on day 1.
Most DALL-E 3 images have a orange-blue cast, which is absolutely not an unintended artifact. You'd literally have to be blind to miss it, or at least color-blind. That wasn't true at first -- check the original paper, and try the same prompts! It was something they started doing not long after release, and it's hardly a stretch to imagine why.
They will be doing the same thing for the same reasons today, assuming it doesn't just happen as a side effect.
This is not my special interest though but the DIY space is much more interesting than the SaaS offerings; this is something about generative AI more generally that also holds, the DIY scene is going to be more interesting.