I would go as far as saying Lightroom is almost 50% of my living, the other 50% is taking pictures. I hardly use photoshop now as lightroom is able to do most things I need, I love it!

I tried earlier versions of Aperture and hated it, I don't know of one single professional photographer who uses it, I'm sure they are out there but I have never met them.

I don't care about how it looks, nothing can beat Lightroom in what it does, just like Photoshop to be honest. If they could improve anything I'd like a better way of passing images between the 2 programs, but that's about it.

Cheers

Cris.