Meanwhile I have developed quite some pictures using both Photolab and Lightroom and highlight / shadow recovery is still a problem. Even if I invest quite some time, Photolab cannot produce the results I can achieve using Lightroom 6.14 pretty easy and fast. Photolab generates ugly colour artifacts in situations where Lightroom delivers natural looking results without any strange side effects.
And even if some users keep on stressing “take your photo the right way, then you don’t need highlight recovery” etc or suggest tedious workarounds - no, thanks. This topic has been discussed endlessly (Highlight recovery) and I would really love to see a major improvement on this.