I guess this is the main issue:
Why should an Elite version, already heavily priced, be artificially crippled, so you must purchase add-ons, related to totally different functions than core raw editing (film simulations, sophisticated image correction (not just image flipping 
for another huge supplement to benefit from basic raw editing functionalities ?
Unfortunately, I’m afraid apologists live in another world where any naughty marketing tactics will be eagerly swallowed.
Once again, I think DxO offers one of the best (if not the best) raw processing and denoising tools with Deep Prime, which is why I have been supporting them for years, and I would hope they could build on this excellence, for example by real integration of Nik Software since they bought it (see this 6 years old post ), so I am disappointed to witness this move towards shady tactics and less and less real updates, costing more and more under increasingly limited conditions.
Feel free to continue to be milked if things don’t change for fair and transparent practices.
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