Perspective and lens geometrical corrections

Ideally Lightroom would encompass all the basic functions needed by the photographer in order to avoid, as much as possible, the use of Photoshop as part of usual workflow.
Perspective and lens geometrical aberrations corrections are two important steps of a photographer's workflow.
It would be great to have them as part of Lightroom. Don't you think?

The biggest disadvantage to edit in PS is, that you multipy the needed disc-space by a factor of about 3-10 by converting DNG or NEF into TIF/PSD and double up your files in LR with each file you´re editing in PS. For me, that´s one of the main-reasons to say, put as much as possibe features into LR. I´m willing to pay more money if LR is a modular system,or if you can choose between a "light" and a "extended" version.
Maybe LR light, and LR extended can be the future, instead of having two different products, 10 times loose of disk space, double number of database-entires is LR and to have a smarter work-flow.
But at least main features like lens corrections and perspective corrections should be included into LR.
Many greetings
EMSI68219

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