I am in the same boat. Lightroom just works and is significantly faster to do the same basic things as DT. What got me to switch was the transition from Legacy to V3 module order and the absolute mess that created for no discernible reason: my photos that were developed using an older version of DT suddenly looked straight up broken and anything new I imported defaulted to Legacy even though I said to always default to V3 to the point where each photo had to be switched individually to V3, a process that on a reasonably powerful computer took about 1.5 seconds.

Moreover the churn of modules that are available but you aren’t supposed to use got old fast. I really do wish I could keep using a FOSS solution but Lightroom has taken my time to edit a batch of photos from many hours to under an hour with better results and virtually no learning curve. Sadly DT has managed to sell me an Adobe product.

Same for me. I tried DT for 2 years but never got comfortable with it. Lightroom just works for me from editing to keywording and geotagging. And the AI masking stuff in Lightroom is really good.

I really wish someone would fork Darktable to build “Darktable but with a UX that isn’t horrible.”

One day!

Isn't this exactly what ansel tried to do?

Not only that. I'd like to have AI masking, effective clone tools, lens corrections and please... actually working defaults! You import RAWs (compressed RAFs) and it render horrible results!

Its bloated with useless functions, it's slow, UI is ugly... Why not focus on important? Stop developing another demosaic method and make it more user friendly, less nerdy piece of tool.