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It is more tedious for simple stuff than layer stacks, but more complex stuff quickly becomes more tedious (or impossible) with layer stacks. Hence, node UIs have become standard with compositing applications that were not designed by Adobe.

I good I’ll give it a more in-depth study. Thanks for the info :)

Nodal based image editing is the standard in the film industry, though obviously there it’s predominantly used for sequences of images. Nuke is the industry standard, though there are a few others.

I would agree it’s pointless if you just want a simple linear set of image processing operations like Lightroom, but film based compositing is obviously vastly more complex than that.

Ok makes more sense for film. Thanks for the info

Many Dan Margulis' tricks cannot be reproduced in Lightroom model. Especially tricks which need to work in different color models simultaneously. Even full Photoshop struggle to represent these tricks in non-destructive way!

Thanks I’ll look up that stuff. Thanks for the response :)