I ended up having a great conservation with DxO and he explained the business model and it made sense. Let's just say, Lightroom users aren't the target of competition.... if they come over, great.... PhotoLab and Lightroom do work great together. That's why the plugin is there and works great. It's another piece of software that they are targeting.
I really do like PhotoLab, I'm not a shill... I paid for it. DxO has offered me a license for Filmpack and I have accepted it. However, if the auto masking isn't as good as Lightroom's... I'll happily say so... because it's really good in Lightroom.
Sometimes I have a photo that I just can't get it to where I want it, and sometimes a switch over to another piece of software makes it happen. Maybe that's a me thing. For the moment it's 90% PhotoLab and 10% Capture One.. I don't use C1 very often, as the UI just doesn't click with me. I'll admit, I have a couple of Mastin Labs presets for Capture One that have helped. It's usually with the Q3 files that Capture One does somethiing better.
