Why do some applications update independant of the application manager

Hello All
I am unsure, but fairly confident, that I am not the only one experiencing this. It seems that for whatever reason Acrobat, Lightroom, Muse and a few other apps have thier own installers and updaters. Why?
What is even more of a pain is the fact that each installation of Lightroom puts itself in a directory with the new version number breaking my shortcuts to it. yes there is a new one made on my desktop, but i have a gadget with a shortcut on it to all my important apps. Every installation of Lightroom breaks that link.
Could we not get all the apps in our creative cloud subscription to be installed and updated directly from the application manager? and could it not break my links?

What other apps is it happening with?

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