I've never gotten an image created that follows my specs (tips?)

Is ChatGPT's image creation, or any other, just not able to really follow directions? Do they only operate with huge amounts of "creative" freedom?

I've been trying to create an image with 2 photo realistic objects in it, and the results are frustratingly off by a lot. (ChatGPT is better at direction than Gemini, which is incredibly bad).

I upload reference images of each object and write long descriptions (I've tried short ones too) but it nothing works. And when I try to reiterate from the first image it gets even worse!

I see what others are posting, and I'm in awe. What am I missing?