Encore gone, what now? And a CC install question.

Question

I'm planning on updating to CC 2014 from CS6, but I was very disappointed to learn that Adobe has discontinued Encore. While there's a lot of digital distribution nowadays, disc authoring is still needed. It's fine that Adobe leaves Encore CS6 available to Cloud users, but Encore, while a decent authoring application, still needed a lot of enhancements. Besides, it will come to a point where Encore will be too old and incompatible to be used.
So I'm wondering, what other programs of the same category are out there for Blu-ray authoring? Because for what I can see, there are consumer grade programs, and then extremely expensive programs for studios. Then there's Sony DVD Architect, but last time I checked it didn't accept files encoded with x264, which is by far the best h.264 encoder. Encore does take x264 encodes, as long as it was encoded with parameters compliant with the Blu-ray standard.
I think Adobe should bring back Encore and revamp it like they did with all the other apps.
But about the installation, I read the article about installing Encore with a Cloud subscription (Encore CS6 not installed with Creative Cloud) but I already have CS6 installed, so just wanted to double check. I'm just supposed to uninstall everything but Encore before I install CC, right? There's no point in uninstalling everything to then go through the convoluted process in that article of installing Premiere so Encore gets installed with it, and then uninstall Premiere.
Thanks

Answer 1

I found something in another thread that addresses my question in part, why Encore has been discontinued. I'll paste the relevant part here:
Encore will never be supported on Mavericks simply because it is End Of Life - Sonic Solutions (who licensed the Encore AuthorCore to Adobe) were swallowed up by Rovi (whose business model is based on streaming on demand) who killed off Sonic Solutions at the end of 2012, finally withdrawing all support from December 31 2013. This affecvted Scenarist SD, Scenarist BD 4 & BD5, Total Code, CineVision, all of it - gone. The argument was that "optical media is dead" but my cynical mind tells me they saw an opportunity to take their main competitor out of the game & went for it. Companies who had spent tens of thousands of pounds on seriously expensive high end authoring & encoding tools suddenly found themselves on their own with no support. Nice move, Rovi.
Another victim here was Adobe, who found themselves with no way to relicense the authorcore so bye-bye Encore. Adobe did *not* stop supporting Encore - the people who bought Sonic Solutions killed it off, and I do not see Adobe starting from scratch & building their own tool to do this as the development costs would be enormous.
It's the sad reality of corporate America, companies buying competitors and killing them off. It's like what Autodesk did with Softimage and it's happened way too many times. There should be laws against this.