We asked camera companies why their RAW formats are all different and confusing

Sony is famous for having the worst interfaces of all the big camera manufacturers.

Lightroom most likely has “obsolete paradigms” for the same reason Photoshop does: because professionals want to use what they know rather than what is fashionable. Reprogramming their muscle memory is not something people want to be doing. Anyway, I find Lightroom’s UI very nice to work with.

Lightroom is very intuitive, once you've spent a few years learning how everything works.

I don't know, I think the learning curve is pretty gentle. Like all complex software, it may be difficult to master, but getting started felt easy enough as far as I remember.

S̶o̶,̶ ̶i̶t̶'̶s̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶i̶n̶t̶u̶i̶t̶i̶v̶e̶?̶ ̶I̶f̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶t̶a̶k̶e̶s̶ ̶y̶e̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶l̶e̶a̶r̶n̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶'̶s̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶"̶s̶i̶m̶p̶l̶e̶"̶.̶

I found it incredibly frustrating at first, so much so that a Loupedeck became a wise and necessary investment to keep the anticipation of editing burden from beginning to depress my interest in photography.

I still have the Loupedeck, on one of the shelves behind my desk. I think I might have used it twice last year.

That's the joke, yes.