Understanding current Lightroom offerings and options

it all has just gone down hill... n 2007 it was all in one.. no cloud and no crashes

now its 10 diff programs and apps and each device is a seprate price, yes i know about the plans ... and the saving process now... whats this cloud based im now seeing? super confused is my program cloud is that why its trash and crashes an doesnt save work somethimes ...? rant over

i went from laptop to ipad back to laptop because space and hard drive stopped saving correctly.