I switched to Capture One a few years ago after the Lightroom subscription-only rug pull, and while it does import Lightroom catalogs... it's really only useful

I switched to Capture One a few years ago after the Lightroom subscription-only rug pull, and while it does import Lightroom catalogs... it's really only useful for catalogs of exported images. RAW engines are as much art as they are science, and I quickly learned that it is not reasonable to expect one engine to simply read settings created in another engine and have the result be anywhere close to a drop-in replacement. I ended up migrating my Lightroom library over as JPEGs, starting fresh as I imported and developed new RAWs in Capture One.