If DxO cared about their customers, there are ways to mitigate this self-inflicted damage.
- DxO could release a Mojave compatible version which missed out on performance optimisation for DeepPrime as those improvements do seem to be related to changes in Apple’s OS. “Improved performance on Catalina and Big Sur.” could be the one feature which we don’t get.
- If there are still too many incompatibilities to release a full PhotoLab 5 for Mojave (don’t think this is the case but would like to know more before I make a definitive statement), DxO could unlock some of the PhotoLab 5 features in PhotoLab 4 for users who purchase PhotoLab 5 licenses.
In my case, what I really want from the PhotoLab 5 feature list are the improvements to local adjustments. I.e. the ability to control luminance and chroma sensitivity in the U-point masks.
I’d also very much like the Fuji X-Trans compatibility but it’s less urgent. I’d also like the ability to choose which corrections to copy and paste although again, I can make do by simply resetting horizon and crop after every copy/paste of image settings. I mostly use Presets to apply my base settings and it’s always been possible to include and exclude adjustments in presets.
For the performance improvements, I could wait a year or eighteen months for when I decide to buy an Apple M1 computer. I don’t ever need the troubled pseudo-DAM.
DxO should stop spending so much time looking after their own needs and worry more about us, their customers. If DxO did that, its customers would take care of DxO: good word of mouth, unpaid marketing, more pro users, more free tutorials (by people who are first-rate published photographers with advanced techniques).
There’s lots of solutions but DxO would prefer to stiff arm their customers and exclude themselves from the professional market. As I said, own goal extraordinaire.