Aperture was fundamentally too small a market for Apple to justify keeping a 'pro-app' team working on it. The concept was a high-cost semi-pro feature-set, and the market soon decided it cost too much and the price had to fall. Once that ball started rolling, the doom was set.
Still, I went on to do more interesting things at Apple - the latest being writing the client<-->server team bridge for 'Hide My Email' to let apps like Safari and Mail integrate into the server-side anonymous-email-mapping-to-a-known-address facility. Lots of cool tech in there, under the skin.
They are probably using ML or AI whatever to get this new Magic Movie thing working. But that’s not their press release, unlike Google which would be parroting this as a major tech thing. Apple goes for the human.
I'm using Lightroom CC, because I'd migrated away from Lightroom Classic several years before.
I can't begin to understand why things like "open selected images as layers in Photoshop" _still_ isn't possible in Lightroom CC. It works really well on my iPad Pro, though, and gives me 90%+ of the features I need for my workflow there. I just wish they provided an accessible scripting environment that I could use to automate things.
I've been looking at CaptureOne myself as a replacement...
If I can also move away from Illustrator for map making, I'll be set. (Read: I really need to spend some time with Affinity Designer to be sure it meets my needs, then just cut the Adobe cord.)