I’m not sure how many non-phone photographers there are here. I still use a DSLR, shoot RAW, and love processing my images to look their best.
Two new releases from DxO may be of interest.
PhotoLab 9 introduced AI masks, including a big overhaul of the whole masking system which makes them very powerful. I’m a long time PhotoLab user (since v3) but had been jumping over to Lightroom recently for my bird photos due to the AI masking. I no longer do that.
FilmPack 8 has a few tweaks, but if you were also a film photographer (or maybe still are!) it has a really interesting feature. Negative inversion. Yes, there are generic ways you can invert negatives, but they all have drawbacks. Not least is you often end up with inverted behaviour on many other controls. This is purpose-built functionality. If you use FilmPack as a “plugin” to PhotoLab, you basically get an extra panel to do the inversion (including removing the mask colour) and then you have the rest of PhotoLab’s controls at your disposal and they all work normally.
I’ve been using my DSLR to capture my old negatives using this process. I just spent half an hour playing with the trial of FilmPack 8 and got from the RAW of a negative to a publish-ready version without a single intermediate file. (Yes, I will update the article once I’ve got the hang of it.)