Midjourney vs GLM 5.2: Which Is Better in 2026

Last week, I spent three hours trying to generate a specific visual for a client pitch: a 1920s-style art deco banking vault, slightly weathered, with warm tungsten light spilling through the door. I just wanted one good image. Midjourney gave me a gorgeous vault door that looked like it belonged in a fantasy RPG—three times in a row. When I tried GLM 5.2, I got exactly the vault I asked for on the first prompt, but the lighting looked like a fla