I’ve not tried Capture One, but I find Lightroom’s mask creation superior to PhotoLab’s. It is more intuitive and more performant.
At the moment, if I could easily round-trip between PhotoLab and Lightroom (Classic) without creating mutliple files all over the place, I’d still be doing my bird photos in Lightroom.
If Lightroom scores 100 for mask creation, PhotoLab is at about 70. It could get a boost to around 90 just by fixing the UI bugs and making it perform well.