Yeah, I could definitely see using it with other more capable organizers. That's why I bought Macphun/Skylum products in the first place. Indeed, I think they and DxO were the first to have a way to send RAW from Lr to their products instead of having to generate a TIFF, which meant you could use a non-Adobe raw conversion.
I don't see how anyone could use it to find photos. I don't think you can even search by filename. DxO developed a bare bones photo browser for their app, even though many use it as an extension or plugin. But it makes ever so much more sense, even within it's limited capabilities. It has search, filtering, ability to group together projects, virtual copies, and (duh) things like filenames on the thumbnails. Probably well worth the extra $$ if one wanted a more mature piece of software to use instead of the Adobe products.
