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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.

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

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.