Lightroom Desktop: Additional options needed when exporting

This the problem. There is no real competitor (maybe photos on macOS/ios but far from perfect).
And adobe got probably a very small team (or some very very little team on each  OS  develop on Mac, iOS, windows, android, web)  resulting lot of compromise and prioritizing). Becomes really sad about that 

I've seen traditional pros using Bridge for culling, Photoshop camera Raw for basic edits and Actual PS for deeper cuts. LR tries to be a bit of both, and thus nothing more than a compromise. 
Bridge stores keywords into the file, while LR stores those into the catalog.

Of late, I've heard Luminar being mentioned more and more often.

I'm curious, are you still evaluating, or have you made a choice, if so, what was your choice, Alan?

Exactly this!

Good feedback! Thank you for reporting. I’m enjoying learning how to like the CC version and the convenience features like being able to edit on an iPad. But it appears there are some extreme limits too. I would equally be as frustrated as you. Maybe the Classic is the way to go. ??

CC on iPad, sync with Classic on desktop and vice versa. That works reasonably well. Serious exports etc have to be done on desktop.

@Arnd Bronkhorst I did not find an existing function to sync between lightroom CC iPad version and PC version of Lightroom Classic CC. And even the PC version Lightroom CC does not have a fully functioned export feature. If you export a JPEG file in PC version Lightroom CC, it will be the same size as in iPad version of Lightroom CC.
The only solution I can find out is:
1. Import your raw and jpg from DLSR to iPad Photos through a USB cable.
2. Import raw and jpg from iPad Photos to Lightroom CC iPad version.
3. Delete the photos in iPad Photos because you already got same copies in Lightroom CC iPad version application folder.
4. Edit your photos in Lightroom CC iPad version on the go.
5. Sync (upload) your photos to Lightroom CC photo cloud provided by Adobe.
6. When you get back home, open the PC version of lightroom CC, sync(download) the photos from Adobe Cloud.
7. Right Click the photo you want to export, select edit in Photoshop.
8. You get a photo in TIFF format with ProPhoto RGB color space in Photoshop.
9. You can use this TIFF for print or use photoshop to transfer it into high-quality JPG file.

For me this works (on iPad/Mac): send Raw file via Wifi from camera to iPad with ShutterSnitch, import raw file from ShutterSnitch to LR, edit on iPad Pro. LR on iPad syncs with Adobe Cloud, and I can set up LR classic in the Mac to sync with Adobe Cloud as well (not the entire catalog, just the ones coming from iPad). This is done in the preferences of LR classic. I don't use LR CC on the desktop, it doesn't have professional functionality IMHO. From LR classic I can export the images that were synced from iPad. This works for the few images that need quick processing. I send small jpegs from my iPad, and anything bigger from LR classic on the Mac. The bulk of the images I edit on the MacBook. Not perfect, but it works.

You are right. Back in 2000 a software without drag and drop or print function is not a production software but a pré-alpha
This is so strange ADOBE does not implement such functionally and even more strange, no road map is published.
Customers just have to pay and ask no question about the future.

LR Cloudy doesn't let you set the compression yet. Last time I checked, it automatically applied about JPEG quality 80, which will create smaller file sizes without visible artifacts. If you compared the two, you're unlikely to spot the difference.

Its still insane to me that this isn’t a configuration after years of this and other threads still ongoing. This is probably the most basic export setting alongside size that anybody would want. I get the whole aim for simplicity ideals of LR cc, but this neither introduces user complexity (especially in comparison to other program features) nor is it an obscure feature to include in photo editing software.

“Probably won’t notice” isn’t really what people want when they’re going to print something.

It’s the fact that you only have 2 basic options and no control, that’s bugging people.
I now work with Classic on the desktop doing the exports, unless it’s to social media or maybe a basic email. But the email export doesn’t look good, so like to do that via classic.

The only reason I’m sticking, is the option to work on images on the iPad Pro. If Capture One did this, I’d probably be off.
So they’ve got me for now...

Yep, extra export options got my vote from the outset. But in the meantime, try this test... export a photo from Classic at quality 80 and again at quality 100, put them in layers in Photoshop and zoom right in, even 400%+. Toggle the layer visibility on and off and see if you can spot the difference. Then you won't worry about prints. 

I can't stress this enough, and other folks have expressed this as well: this isn't just about prints. This is about continuing the editing in other software, which JPEGs at any quality are *not* suitable for.

Zooming in and toggling layers won't show compression artifacts like banding over a large gradient. Better response: then why is this even configurable in Lightroom Classic? Why not remove the quality setting for simplicity?

So why does Capture One and other software give you the option? Because it’s just that, and option!
All people are saying is they want the option.
Why not just shoot your 40mp camera at 20mp or less to start with? I mean most output you can’t see the difference....

It's a good request, no question. It's just not there yet. At 117 votes, it's one of the most popular requests for LR Cloudy, so I'm sure it's a high priority for Adobe to add.

I’m going to guess a lot of people don’t even know to find this forum or maybe never even really got into using the software because of the significance of this deficiency in comparison to the other kind of asks here, which don’t seem like things that’d ward off casual users. That, and this general underlying problem is also filed in various different ways it seems.