Beginner Luminar Neo for $69: Worth it?

[Sony Corleone]

Excire sent me an offer: Luminar Neo perpetual desktop for $69. I already have Photolab 9 (use all the time), Lightroom Classic (useful fairly often), and Topaz AI (once in a blue moon).

I checked it out, and apparently, Neo is able to remove and insert objects, which, I guess, could be useful. Seems like it is hard to go wrong for $69.

So...what do people here think of this program?

 

[Sony Corleone]

I was smelling that delicious bait when I finally found the hook.

If you buy for $69, you only get the AI functions for one year! They're the whole reason for buying the software. So it's a subscription, like just about everything else.