P: Ability to sync Lightroom Classic keywords with the Lightroom Ecosystem

We need to put things in perspective. Evolution (?) is very marginal.
LR classic costs a whole 144€/year ti use a software we already own and add some HDR pano (great) and profiles. does it  worth this price to pay???
As usual we will ear from defendant : for this price you have PS (who cares if you don't use it) and CC.  But CC is far from usable (fast but weak or limited or marketed limitation).
Furthermore Mac and iOS version are far from aligned and for example does not synchronise signature

Bottom line, I feel like they are keeping classic alive until CC cloud is mature enough to switch classic down. I don’t see any reason for them to keep developing 2 versions of LR forever.
That day will be without me 🙂

.... And, profiles are really part of ACR as well.

There are updates, but many people feel like it’s “just to keep people happy”, not real updates. And the vast majority of them are in ACR and can easily be “recycled” in classic.

HDR Panos is great, but is not really new, just a process improvement.

Profiles is... ok... a way to apply presets before touching sliders...

Does not evolve? I disagree. Classic has had many changes and even new features recently, from the profile system changes to HDR panoramas to various little fixes and improvements.

No, but it is correct. You can prove it by testing.

It is obvious Classic does not evolve and probably will not less and less. Ressources are not infinite , even for the creator of the monstrous adobe reader and flash and so on.

But the strange thing is Adobe (it is what I can read here) creating 2 category :
One with the old way using a desktop with a slow Classic and poor cloud functionality.
Second with a fast app for desktop and mobile (really a great piece of software) with no power functionality or no basic functionality (print, keyword,smart folder...).
But you are ready to use the powerful app at home or at office and want to use some cloud functionality we are said to not understand the way adobe create the 2 app’.
That is just crazy the 2 solutions does not communicate better (for example about creating folder /collection, keyword) to comply with people who need the best of the 2 world.

For apple / Mac / iPad users, the only chance I see in a near future to see our best wishes is to wait for the arm cpu MacBook and the marzipan project. We will have the best of the 2 worlds and probably some competitors to LR. Resulting in a rush at adobe office to listen to their customer.

Beg your pardon, English is not my mother tongue.

At the time of the rebranding to LR CC and LR Classic, Victoria Bampton, who is well-connected to Adobe, wrote, ""Future development of Lightroom Classic is being refocused on improving performance and enhancing the editing tools." 

Since then, it appears to me that's what Adobe has focused on.  They have fixed more bugs, including Library bugs, in the last year or so than in previous years. But no significant improvements except to Develop and Book.

I am not seeing it the same way as you are Jao. 

Almost all the changes incorporated into Classic since CC came out have been based in ACR (Adobe Camera Raw).  This is what drives the develop module and drives ACR in Photoshop as well as the desktop Lightroom CC.  It also is the root of LR CC mobile apps.  So, the bulk of the development (concept, design, mode of operation, logic, and most of the coding) gets done once and is then adapted to all three platforms (LR Classic, ACR, and LR CC).  So, it's more like classic is just piggy-backing on the CC development in regards to the Develop module.   

However, except for some very minor (and trivial) changes such as color labels on folders, there has been very little to get excited about in LR Classic Library Module.  They did *finally" beef up the Book Module with custom page layouts (too little too late IMHO) but for the most part not much has been done for Classic outside of the Develop Module.  

In addition, I recall reading something from Adobe when CC first came out (and everyone was confused) that they would not be doing much of anything with Classic except for the Develop module and this is what we have been experiencing.  This is what sparked all the speculation and debate about their long range goals for the product.  I have seen nothing since then that is contrary to this perceived direction other than a lot of people complaining about it.

I don't think I heard that before.  Is there any written info from Adobe that this is the way it works?