Are you speaking as an authorized strategist for Adobe, or is this just an opinion? I hardly think Lightroom Classic and Lightroom CC rise to the level of an ecosystem. It's two products from different sources that are intended to solve the same problem, and some marketing wizards at Adobe have desperately attempted to come up with a strategy that says "yeah... we MEANT to do that....". As a product developer/manager for a major computer company for well over 30 years, I know two things.... NO company in their right mind is going to maintain two products from different origins that are intended to solve the same problem ad infinitum. They can not or should not support two development groups for competing product strategies. and NO company (in their right mind) is going to purposely limit functionality for the 'greater good' of some previously-mentioned flimsy strategy. You don't compete with yourself. The competition is "out there". I completely understand migration paths. But if some 'strategist' thinks two products forever that have to be explained to the user that do the same functionality is the right way to go, sell your stock. (My apologies if that strategist is you... but I still vehemently disagree). IMHO, one of these products is going away sooner or later. Hopefully sanity will come back and all of the needed functionality that is spread across both products will ultimately merge into the one product. But keeping two separate products as a long-term strategy, if it is indeed the long-term strategy, needs some different people providing input. BTW.... the comment was made that it is impossible to have a second monitor on a phone or tablet. I've got an Apple TV that does that. The argument that CC can't have a 2nd monitor due to use on a phone does not hold water.
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