Follow Up to Adobe Missed Turn

Well, that story woke you up! My comments about Adobe possibly missing a step with Lightroom provoked quite a few of you to send me an email. Indeed, more so than any other article this year, and by a fair margin. As such, it’s worth dipping into your comments and questions and doing a follow up. It seems a lot of you agreed with my basic contention that Adobe isn’t exactly innovating with Lightroom any more (though they do keep adding features to it, but usually after they do it for Photoshop/ACR). For instance, the following was a fairly common reaction I received: “I’m a serious enthusiast with a library of nearly 80k images from the past 15+ years and maintaining that library is a huge priority for me. I'm still burned many years later from Apple abruptly ending Aperture. I switched to Lightroom Classic mostly because I thought it was least likely to have an Aperture-style ending. My plan has been to basically accept the "catalog lock in" you describe even as its obvious Lightroom…