Trying to dump Lightroom as well. Doesn’t seem as easy.
Discussion
A nice alternative to Lightroom is Luminar Neo.
It's a bit of an adjustment but I'm enjoying it.
Others are Darktable, RawTherapee and Capture One but I haven't tried any of those yet.
Luminar is paid but I believe RawTherapee is free.
Yep have heard of all of those and I’ve tried Darktable. Different workflow and quite a learning curve plus a somewhat basic and clumsy DAM. I think I simply prefer Lightroom Classic’s DAM over all the others, some of which don’t even have one or don’t really work well.
Try Photomator and Pixelmator Pro if you are on mac.
I am but I don’t use Apple Photos as a media manager/DAM. Might revisit this though.
You don't have to anymore:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB38zqiIFWQ
When this came out I made a switch, no regrets so far.
Oooh interesting! 👍🏼