I'm getting the feeling that you may be more the norm than the exception MM .. I think I'm more the exception here.
Just so it's clear.
I'm not against Lr's cataloging ability per se.
If I didn't already have a system, I'd probably use it, in some way myself.
The problem is you can't get around it!
if the catalog/library module was less integral(or forced), just like the print module is, or the book module.
The primary focus should be(in an ideal world) to develop first, and catalog later.
That is, why would you want to catalog images that you may not even keep .. or want to catalog.
Makes perfectly good sense to add info into images that are important to you, but any non keepers get added into the catalog too .. it's wasteful more than anything else.
So for those of us who may just want to use it to ... quickly review some images already loaded onto the PC, or quickly edit an image already edited, and cataloged in another program ....
It's quite frustrating to have to go through their
workflow.
if the catalog/library module was an independent tool, used when called, instead of being forced on the user, Lr would be a very good program, and I'd probably use it a lot more myself.
I tried Phase One's Capture One many years ago and didn't particularly like it, but I've seen many folks use it very effectively.
But this topic is going away from what the OP originally started the thread about .. is it worth installing Lr, when you technically have it already(via the subscription thingy Adobe has).
I dunno anything about PS to be honest, so can't comment directly on the worth of having it on the computer as well as CC, but it may well be.
But as a quick method of editing a single image if you want to 'Open with' or 'Send to', it's not an ideal
workflow.