Here's my question. I thought I had read that only the Develop mode features in LrC require a paid subscription, and that the organizing features are available without paying.
Can anyone confirm/refute this, or clarify if I'm in the ballpark?
No, that's not quite correct. What you may have read is that when a user cancels an existing Photography Plan subscription then Lightrioom Classic will continue to run in a special reduced function mode. That mode allows full use of the Library module (so importing, organising, exporting, printing, even some editing using the Quick Develop panel are all still possible), but the Develop and Map modules, plus cloud syncing, are disabled. Photoshop is also unavailable.
Obviously, getting to that point means you must have paid for a subscription in the first place, you can't get that special mode by simply using the free trial and then cancelling it.
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