Too bad. I have lots of replacements for LR's editor, but none for the overall DAM aspects, integration with plugins, etc. Adobe needs competition in that space, whether you want to stay with Adobe or switch.
I kind of disagree that an all-in-one solution would be the best. As an example, just look at Lightroom as it is currently. Hogged down, slow, a mess of legacy code not utilising modern GPUs and multi-core CPUs almost at all, with any new added feature like Transform or even older features like Spot Removal not working well at all (technical: Spot Removal and Transform/Perspective corrections take place at the very end of Lightroom's rendering pipeline, meaning you are best doing them BEFORE any edits were made to the photo at all, for them to be responsive even on very high-end hardware - to actually use them meaningfuly with the GUI responsible at all, without half-a-minute wait for mouse cursor, I had to create a preset that is empty of any default edits, apply the by-hand corrections, and then select another preset that applies all the low-level corrections like lens-correction, sharpening, colour profile, contrast, whatever...). If Adobe was selling a standalone version of Adobe Camera Raw, I wouldn't even use its products at all except it (and that's probably why they don't sell it as standalone). All-in-one products are usualy mediocre to downright bad in performance and usability. Even Adobe recently admitted that themselves with the plan (yet to be seen in reality) to overhaul Lightroom for better performance. Just give me a good, performance friendly browser/catalogue app, a good, performance friendly editing app, all interconnected via XMP metadata (meaning the edits are saved inside the file or at least sidecar, not in some proprietary stupid folder structure that doesn't play well with copying the files elsewhere), and I will be a very happy photographer.
While it would be great to be able to just utilise PM as an all-in-one browser, DAM and RAW editor, I don't see that happening without compromise in other aspects. It's just not realistic. I will be happy with PM being my primary browser and culling tool, and (hopefuly) handling the DAM part once that gets released, with editing outside in other software, if it plays well with it.
