Photos is not an adequate replacement of Aperture

Have an Aperture library of 26000+ photos totaling 270GB. Most of the photos (without dates) were scanned into Aperture (oldest photo is from 1860). There are all family photos which were filed into decades, years within decades and albums within a year. Dates were estimated. The sequence of the photos within an album were done with the Batch Rename of Aperture. Photos needs to support this function which is excellent in managing the library.
Secondly  i use Zenfolio to share the photos with family members and friends. Most have non Apple products. iCloud will be fine for a selected few in my case.  You need to accept add ons by third parties as you did for Aperture (Zenfolio has an add on for the export function of Aperture).
In summary
1) Photos is not a replacement to Aperture
2) Sorting capabilities for more than just date
3) Batch Rename function
---> Just add to Photos the Metadata functions of Aperture
4) Third Party add ons

As I see it since Apple has decided not to support any photographers that serious about their photos then the only valid solution is to drop all of their photographic applications and start using third party applications instead.
I completely agree with your that the way iCloud is implemented with Photos is totally backward from the way I want to work with my photos on the web. Their downgrading everything down to the least common dominator is really pathetic.
So far in my research I have discovered that Capture One Pro 8 appears to be the Aperture 4 that Apple has been promising use for a long time.  When I return from a trip I have planned earlier, I am going to download their demo copy to see how it works.

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