Skip connections are designed to pass information from earlier layers to later layers, preserving fine-grained details. In this multimodal scenario, skip connections from the reference image encoder allow the generator to directly access and utilize those details. Increasing latent space dimensionality might capture more information, but doesn't guarantee fine-grained detail transfer. Larger kernels can blur details. Reducing batch size helps with generalization but doesn't directly address detail transfer. GANs might generate sharper images, but lack the explicit control over detail transfer that skip connections provide.