Downgrade
But the app has severely declined in quality as all apps do when tech giants prioritize profits above all else - user experience be damned. This shows quite clearly in the latest updates as several features & presets were deliberately stripped from the app. To say it was a disappointment would be an understatement, as those features helped me achieve the edits I wanted when my chronic illnesses & flareups impacted my vision and I couldn’t edit photos manually, or I was running between my day job, studies & hospital appointments and I had little time or energy to work on them. The app used to have strong options & versatility. You had more choices to reach the vision you had in mind and getting to explore what other community members had created would even inspire an entirely new idea or theme.
But now the options are meek, to put it lightly. Barely any options there at all. Honestly thought it was a bug at first, but went onto the forums only to discover it was not only a nightmare to navigate the platform and report any bugs at all, but also that the change was in fact a deliberate choice by the developer. Adobe’s response to the entire situation was even more disappointing.
I despised the change, and it severely disrupted my content creation. Photography was quite honestly one of the few sources of joy in my life amid my health issues, and Lightroom went from being what made me fall in love with photography even more, to the thing that killed what little joy I got to experience in the middle of back-to-back medical treatments.
I cancelled my subscription and don’t see myself using it again.
