Canon defines the professional market for interchangeable lens cameras, now for 30+ solid years. Your random detail-free anecdote means zero when considering the market share of a company that dwarves all competition, bigger than the next two manufacturers combined. Moreover, Canon is not even the brand(s) involved in the OP's post, further highlighting the random nonsense of your silly reply.

I would exhaust the free training in utube before paying a penny for anything else.

Fortune cookie wisdom can change the direction of your life, just like a new camera.

I still question the software involved ...

The differences in the pixel resolution make for differences at the pixel-level, so looking there and finding differences doesn't matter much. But, the 'full-screen' view should be the same. When I flip between your two images, differences in the pillars and fence details of the houses behind the fountain visually 'flip' as I flip between the two images. That doesn't happen in my LR images, but I'll have to search for something similar to now specifically test.

Creative people have a deep curiosity about when to buy a new camera.

I looked at the details of two of the images in this demonstration, seeing differences I wouldn't expect to see, certainly not differences I've found in my own resized images.

Until consistent results can be created across multiple softwares and varied JPEG compression settings, I wouldn't consider the matter 'settled', not for me at least . In my own experiments looking at other issues, I know I've run experiments that would have overlapped with these results / demonstrations, but I never reached the same findings. I looked at the details of two of the images in this demonstration, seeing differences I wouldn't expect to see, certainly not differences I've found in my own resized images.

Diane, I shoot with (relatively) older cameras and mostly older lenses. I needed to revisit your OP and see if I could determine the original idea. Most of what I have to 'say' on UHH is sarcastic support of the truthiness of most of UHH's fundamental ideas, especially that new cameras make for better photos and better photographers.

But, your topic and decision 'drivers' really doesn't match the loaded words of your post title. Yes, I recognize we can't go back and re-write aspects of UHH posts after the initial hour. My understanding of your post and subsequent discussion is a need to select new (different) equipment that 'better' matches your physical abilities and evolving desires on how to enjoy both travel and your photography while traveling. I've encountered some of the same questions in my own travel and photography decisions.

Although I haven't purchased a new digital (nor film) camera body in now 8-years, I can see how the new releases across the industry continue to expand the many and varied options of how to generate awesome images in a personally (individually) enjoyable method.

I also enjoy yanking the chains of a wide swath of the UHH population who are clearly threatened by new mirrorless technology, especially those who deny -- against all visual and anecdotal evidence -- the superiority of even the entry-level MILC models. In my oddball way, I'm supporting the results of your journey into mirrorless. And, I look forward to the results.

Looking at these examples, I'd need to know more details:

1, How were these images resized? Was the original used to resize the two (three?) subsequent outputs?

2, The images all report Capture One 23. If you resize the export from LR Classic with the same image, can you create the same 'differences'?

3, The images don't report a colorspace. If this was changed to sRGB, does the behavior of the JPEGs change?

4, How was the original image captured?

5, How was the original image edited? How many times and where was the file format changed, Tiff, JPEG, ect?

6, Does Capture One work from the original in a non destructive manner, follow-up to Q1, above? Or, do you have to process / reprocess the edited file to create more versions?

Your demonstration is not my experience, but I use different tools. Therefore, I fear the idea presented can be traced to different causes, rather than the generalization presented.

There is nothing deep down inside us that can't be fixed by a more expensive camera.

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You make your own luck by working hard and buying a better camera.

Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they need a better camera.

Great selection! That's a healthy, but not too far walk, from where I live. Thanks for the reminder to plan my own visit.

Creativity takes the courage to buy a better camera.