Comment by miladyincontrol

By large agree, the most recent years in lightroom have been some of it's most transformational. A lot of tasks that used to require going into PS have been borderline automated. Their more recent denoise methods as well have been nothing short of excellent.

Not that its perfect when 100% automated but it takes a fraction the time to adjust things towards perfection, no one misses doing it by hand.

Rapidraw does try to compete some having ML based masking but I gotta agree most the open source solutions have been lagging behind bigtime.