I mostly agree; to say two more words about Lightroom, I still use it with a set of catalogs spanning the entire library. But as you describe, the intake and st

I mostly agree; to say two more words about Lightroom, I still use it with a set of catalogs spanning the entire library. But as you describe, the intake and structuring of the photos from the cameras and devices is handled by other programs and services (in my case Google Photos and dropbox with scripts dealing with folders and backup) and the sharing/publishing is also done outside of Lightroom. I think LR needs to know about all the photos to do the tagging and editing, but otherwise it becomes a smaller and smaller piece of the overall workflow. About the "Don't understand photography", IMO it's misdirected in the sense that Apple surely understands how people want to deal with their photos, but they seem to be pretty bad at this game, stagnated for a while (even now, they don't care enough to bring a competitive pricing model for the icloud storage), and now that decent competitors are rising up with features way ahead of what Apple has to offer they look like they're missing the boat. Fundamentally Apple has been going the right direction for a long time IMO. I think they're just wildly underestimating how much they are behind what people expect from them and are too slow on the execution to capture the needs of the moderate to heaviest users. As they are heavily flexing their marketing muscle tonpresent themselves as where photo happens on smartphones, there's a dissonance between their "with us you can take the best photos" message and the state of photo management on their platform.