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They drove me off Lightroom, I was just a causal user. The upsell spam and ads in Adobe Reader has also driven me away from that too. I would have considered buying an upgrade for both, but the price was never right for casual home use. Now I don't use any Adobe products at all.

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I strongly dislike paying for subscription software that I don't use very frequently[1], but I do pay for the Photoshop & Lightroom bundle. At ~$10 / month, it ends up being a lot less than I paid for updating "perpetual" licenses to those products frequently enough (every two years?) to get the new features.

[1] I'm a hobbyist photographer, but not a pro.

As someone looking to drop Lightroom, what did you move to? Last I checked everything else sucked pretty bad.

I switched to Capture One. Not as easy to use as Lightroom, but the RAW processing is actually superior. It's a one time purchase. The professionals can choose to upgrade every year, the casual users can upgrade less frequently.

Capture One is just ~5 years behind Adobe pushing people to subscriptions - in fact they are actually quite bit more expensive for what you get now. Perpetual licenses are going away

I also use Capture One, and I actually liked it significantly better than Lightroom when I did a side by side comparison of them a couple of years ago.

Lightroom is starting to get some HDR processing capabilities that are interesting to me, but that one feature by itself isn't currently worth paying Adobe's crazy subscription prices just to use a program that I otherwise don't enjoy.

And they all still only deal with a part of what LR provides. You're going to be upset. LR as a complete package (editing, DAM, apps on all devices, etc...) is hard to beat. I'm about to turn LR back on b/c I find myself taking fewer pictures as to not deal with my non-LR workflow.

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