I think you and Lightroom got off on the wrong foot. It happened to me when I first tried it (Lr v2). I locked myself in my room on a Saturday morning and did not emerge until I wrapped my head around it. Been using it ever since, and it does EVERYTHING I need it to do as far as cataloging and managing my images. The other alternatives may be more robust, and offer multi-user capability, etc, but for a single user, Lr is hard to beat.

I suggest you find someone to give you a hand getting reacquainted with LR - you'll be glad you did.

I use ACDSee which I've used since before the turn of the century. It initially was a shareware photo catalogue program, and that's all it did. It now also includes photo editing, and the editing is really easy to use, and includes layers. The cataloging however, is as good as it gets, unfortunately, this means it is not all that easy to set up. Yes, easy as pie to use, but it is very flexible, which makes it less than easy to set things up to your best advantage. Once you learn all the features though, it is nothing less than awesome.

I know you don't want editing capability, but ACDSee's editing is not in your way at all, and if you ever want to edit something, it is super easy to use, but only if you want to use it, otherwise, editing is just a menu item you need never click on.

Do you have a new question or new images? This is the same Feb 5 image initially posted in thread: https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-630797-1.html

As shown in the screen capture, the AF point is active on the barn roof. The sides of the barn building are better focused than the roof where the AF points is active. Given the AF mode, I wonder if the camera was slightly re-positioned after the lens was focused.

Are there new images that correspond with the questions of this new posting?