Not accusing anyone of hypocracy; just selective judgement for some. Saudi Arabia is a big issue, to me. Starving and seemingly purposeful bombing of a high percentage if children as targets is a repetitive activity for them in Yemen. And using US-made armaments in the process. The Cubans got nothing on us, in that area, since Congress refuses to stop selling such arms to the Saudis...or Trump defending the Saudi murder of a reporter. The Cuban people suffer for the restrictions we apply on them, not their leaders. Yet they are no more guilty of excesses applied by their government than we are by ours.

The catalog is the key to how the software operates. If you don't want to manage your images with a searchable database, no one is saying you have to. Chose any other software you desire. As said in another comment in this thread, the software does only what the human at the keyboard instructs the software to do. If the human does not want training, is too busy to do their homework or makes an uninformed choice when setting parameters during usage, that's the software user and not the software. Although we haven't heard from the OP on why they decided to use an DNG, the correction to the problem they posted is just a few keystrokes to undo the prior import. For an experienced and knowledgeable user, there was nothing about their issue that was 'grief or lost time'. There are hours upon hours of 100% free training available on utube and Adobe's site for how to set-up and use Lightroom. However, if you desire to sit down and play and think you'll learn by doing, this is not that software. Training shouldn't be considered grief or wasted time.