What do we do about Lightroom? Capture one? How about sharing galleries?

Immich is pretty good for sharing photos. https://immich.app/

I don't know. I was dumb enough to move my entire photo library into Lightroom cloud back when they released that.

It's a nightmare.

It's pretty easy to export the photos, you get them down organized by date and photos with edits are there both as the original and a "-edited" version. What is missing is the library organization.

I really want to get my library organization as well, it's very valuable to me, it's what has got the details of what photos was from what event. And I don't really know how to get that down. I am thinking I will have to scrape it from the webapp or something like that.

It's been left to last as it's both one of the cheaper subscriptions and a total nightmare to get out of.

As for what app to use when it's all down, Capture One or Darktable seems reasonable with a network attached drive.

I like darktable as a Lightroom alternative.

Rawtherapee has a better UX than Lightroom in my opinion and I've never felt limited by it.

You might check out https://www.photoprism.app/

Darktable and RAWtherapee are both excellent Lightroom alternatives.