I use Photoshop CC, Lr Classic CC, DXO Photolab, On1 Raw and Capture One. They each handle raw files slightly differently. For instance, Capture One does great stuff with Sony .arw files. DXO has Nik suite integrated into it, so it is fairly seamless to move from the raw editor to the Nik library.

Like yourself, I don't like to sit in front of a computer. I rarely spend more than a couple of minutes on an image, unless I am doing a fashion-industry style headshot retouch, in which case I might spend 90 mins or more on each image. But I charge for that and I do deliver the results the clients are looking for.

This image was a 15 shot pano - 3 rows of 5 images, merged in Lightroom, edited slightly in Lightroom, then exported to Photoshop for masking, color and contrast adjustments etc. The whole thing took me about 5 minutes.

The first image was just the results of the pano stitch, the second was the final result.

It would be hard to do this with Nikon software.