Letting a few people post about beta software is hardly a change of their "whole business strategy", get a perspective.
LR hit maturity at 5 and now it's just being fiddled with just enough to keep people on board.
7.2 looks like a fix to me. They promised great things with GPU integration that didn't deliver and 7.0 was supposedly better, but didn't deliver. Now they're trying again and the reports from the beta suggest better, but still not as much as promised.
Still no compelling reason to buy into subscription for me.
Roll on Serif's version.
I'm not the one needing to "get a perspective" - the first order of business Paul is to carefully read the context so you understand it before firing off misguided exhortations to others.
The context of my remark you think lacks perspective wasn't about beta testing - it was about the acceptability of the subscription model of software vending, and I'll stick with my contention stated therein.
Now, may I ask, it appears from what you say that you aren't in the subscription stream, so how do you know about the performance and feature changes that have occurred since the latest update of the perpetual license version you would be operating?
As for "maturity", it's a fuzzy concept, very much in the eye of the beholder in terms of what it is and when it happens. With digital imaging we live in a world of incremental technical change that doesn't necessarily blow the world over with each new release, but gradually adds a few improvements at a time until at the end of several years what we are using now is obviously superior to what we used several years ago. The same holds for cameras and inkjet printers. I think it would be unreasonable to expect sea-changes in software performance from one version to the next regardless of the sales model. It periodically happens that very major changes occur in a new software version ushering in a different kind of functionality to serve for years into the future, but these are normally less frequent than the kinds of update improvements you seem to consider as relatively unimportant, but I would consider to be movement along a continuum of welcome technical development. I'm happy they have the cash flow to keep doing it, and I'm happy there's growing competition out there to discipline the market.