Comment by milch

For me it's the other way around. I tried darkroom and C1 but I found both of them a lot harder to use and less feature-rich compared to Lightroom. If I was a pro user using it every day I'm sure I could justify learning either of those programs (and learn them relatively quickly) but as a hobby user I wanna take photos, not learn photo library management and editing from scratch. The quality and quantity of free tutorials and presets for Lightroom on YouTube and other platforms is also much greater. Granted I haven't tried these vibecoded versions, but I barely trust the Adobe products not to corrupt my library, I probably wouldn't trust these either