I wonder if you'll still hold that opinion if Adobe move LR to a subscription model in two years time ?
That's why we need to continue and support Adobe's competition! Keep the pressure up to prevent Adobe from making more stupid decisions, and allow competition to drive innovation.
In the mean time, Capture One has become much better, and will hopefully continue (when we support it) in the coming years. We have the very capable RawTherapee, in several ways better than Adobe's Raw conversion process, basically for free. We have
very capable Pano stitching and focus stacking offerings, with much better control than what Photoshop has to offer. We have (some are exclusively plug-in based) very useful productivity/image enhancement (distortion correction, Topaz-Labs, Nik Software) solutions.
Cheers,
Bart