I really don't mind AI art, but it does begin to look noticeable, when the styling is all the same and you can tell it's generated. But I'm not against it being used.
As long as the grind is complemented with adequate reward. If you're grinding a bunch of nonsense stuff, just to get some dialogue progression, and it's overly tedious that's not as fun. A little puzzling for progress can be fun though.
This is a reasonable tag idea. Makes it easy to filter for either preference. Though there could be some unforeseen fallout, like if MC dude has some hair, would it get the hairy tag still and then filter in/out even though you may only be concerned about the female hair specifics? Still worth...
Bloodborne is the best atmosphere/story, but recently went through Sekiro and that was a really fun combat and skill tree change up to the typical Soulsborne group.
The Bioshock and Dead Space series are good single player, story driver shooters, if those are up to your interests. They're not too demanding for hardware either.