Not sure I follow why my argument is hollow.
As I've said earlier nice to have options and learn from every resource. Depends what you are learning and how. You want to learn creativity piece or practical piece? Both are tutorials but tailored towards different needs.
"His YouTube channel is more of a feature list rather than a ways to work on individual images" - I should agree and disagree. Alex will try not to show during "feature" list how to "SPECIFICALLY" work on individual images from beginning to the end this is for RAW Editing episodes (see #3 and #9). He shows outlined in agenda featurette and show you how to use it for different practical situations and apply to entire working session. Later on (judging from Russian sessions), he will start showing How to combine it all together starting from beginning to the end using his entire Sessions from the field (you could also share your own). From culling, Post Processing, Exporting, Checking, Sharpening, etc.. (starting from Culling your Images in Photo Mechanic or other sofrware and all the way to creating client version copies and once for the web).
Actually having many other tutors showing you "individual" images approach is what I have found confusing in C1 most of all when originally started learning it. Cause yes, you could get very involve in every image spending hours and hours making it better..[I call it retoucher approach or perfectionists approach].but more on this below.
I have been using C1 since version 7 and actually very much familiar with Capture One Pro channel. It goes into great details how many things C1 covers well and how it truly unlocks your creativity. Which is honestly awesome and absolutely true. There is also Sascha Erni's book on Capture One (version 9), which is also very detailed. But using those resources above ,honestly, I'd never switch from LR. Why? Cause for typical LR user (I was LR user since 1.4 version before), let's say it out loud, interface is well different and confusing [for first time user]....tools are well very different, the way it works, they way it renders, etc...Yes, there are people that show you how great the software is, but not many of them truly give you feeling that you could do the same amount of work you currently complete in LR faster (or similarly in time), they only try to convince you that you could do it BETTER.
But what if you want to learn Practical piece, true practical approach. For me Alex is good at showing you "WHY" you want to try the specific feature/tool rather than let's dive into enormous potential of it. Truly, practical approach. Alex is working professional and during busy month could easily get 3-5 gigs a week (3-5 hours event shootouts for TV or journals, etc...) Over the years he has developed mind map on what works [for him] and share it with you. So he would always say that he wants to teach you how to really work on your image, having time restrains to work on your session as consideration. Alex tries to show what works in this situation and what is truly not. For example Normalize tool, or Sharpening tools in C1 are good (if you have good amount of time), but in case of Normalize it is not yet complete, and in case of Sharpening, it could be done easier with simple Photoshop Action tailored...Anyway... Alex always say unless you are "in-love" with specific image, and truly want to bring all of it's potential forward (say Great Landscape Shot or Amazing Portrait) etc... Image processing shouldn't take longer to PP than you have spent to actually Compose it and Take it. I know it could be taken the "other" way around, oh yes, every image is the baby, and you are more than welcome to spend several hours on each image, etc... But in case you are working 3-5 gigs a week, 3-4 hours, each, this is PRACTICAL approach. Oh yes, he will show you all the ways to do it, and you will develop your own routine at the end, not necessary identical to his.
Other way around for me with Pratik. He had a wonderful video on Capture One 9 and how to do Dodge& Burn. Cool stuff, I should agree I would not know before that, that C1 could do it...BUT it is not practical, Photoshop or Affinity is a lot better suited to do this task (for me for example). Again, Pratik has wonderful ways to show you things and tasks but I seriously doubt he uses C1 to do Dodge &* Burn in C1 :) Off the topic, Pratik's Infinite Color tool for Photoshop is pretty good and he uses Harmonize feature which resembles C1 Color Balance wheel (and he talks about it in Tutorial).
I personally use all the Learning materials I could find, and constantly trying to find new ways to PP better, and of course Faster.
From time to time coming with Great set of images from my sessions I do wear my [Retoucher/Perfectionist] hat and spend hours/(sometimes days) on specific set of images, but even more often, I come from field with 1000 image session which needs to be quickly culled, pre-processed, shown to end customer, culled some more, processed, sharpened, exported for customer's website, and exported in Print format as well and all of it in less than 3 days time, in this case I wear [Event Photographer's] hat. So both Pratik's and Alex's ways are very much used.
Ooh, and Alex's blog is a guide not tutorial really. His tutorial is really Live Videos on Youtube. They are interactive so you could ask questions while it is ON.
And on Tony. Yeah, I know a lot of people have very different opinion on him, and for some it is very sensitive topic. But fact is the fact, and numbers are numbers. His LR books are the most popular.
