“Change her shirt to blue.”
- No preservation list — Nano Banana might restyle the face, hair and background as well.
- No identity anchors — re-running the same edit on a different photo of her gets a different person.
- No reference-image roles — Nano Banana doesn't know which image holds the subject and which is the lighting reference.
- No style anchor — output drifts toward the AI-generic 'plastic photo' look.