I switched to C1 from LR when Adobe stopped doing perpetual licenses, as I have a general aversion to the hard vendor lock-in that comes with SaaS. It took me a couple weeks to adjust to the different paradigm, but all in all I prefer it to LR, I find the raw converter better (iirc, it's manually calibrated for each camera they support), and also I found the spotting tool to work better than the one in LR (which I use a lot with scanned negatives). The C1 layers are very powerful. Cataloguing is better in LR, easier to search, and also not being able to name variants in C1 is irritating (I work around that by using tags, as tags can differ between variants). I use the catalogue workflow but with images stored outside of the catalogue in a date-based directory tree; this can be configured in the importer. All in all, I'd not consider going back to LR even if Adobe re-introduced normal licenses.
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