Originally posted by BigMackCam
These are professional tools in every respect.
Well, except in one key respect, which is similar to the Nikon-Canon duopoly (thankfully now changing, thanks mainly to Sony, the only company large enough and with the will to go after them head-on...). And that key aspect is the fact that the Adobe products are the ones used ubiquitously in the majority of graphics and photo studios in my industry, at least. Of course, I can always provide a finished tiff (these are required for most things I do professionally), but if I have to hot-seat between home and work, then I need to work with Adobe.
I don't have a special problem with LR6, and maybe now I won't with PS (although previously I found it ghastly to work with, and the price!), but I am increasingly aware of other excellent options....sigh. If only the general industry wasn't so mind-numbingly conservative. BTW, since 2005 I've been a user of LightZone, was its forums admin at the end, and since 2011 with others run the LightZone Project to keep that orphaned software alive, free and open-source.