Why isn't Lightroom included?

Hi;
I'm a long-time Adobe user (started working w/Photoshop in the 90's) who hasn't upgraded his personal software in a while. Former employers had the application licensed at work, and Adobe's pricing on upgrades/suites just made it difficult and ultimately impossible for me to keep up. Now we're here in 2010 and hooray I'm no longer working for the man, but that also means I'm facing paying for the full version on CS5. And of course, it's cheaper to buy a suite of apps than it is to just get the two key apps I'll need, but that's a separate discussion.
The question I've got, as the subject says, is why isn't Lightroom included? From everything I've gathered looking at the Adobe site, it looks like Lightroom is a great companion tool to Photoshop. I had hoped it would be included in the Production Premium suite (the one I need in order to get Photoshop & After Effects), but looking through the others (including the 'Master' suite) it appears to have been omitted completely.
Why is that? Is the program being phased out? Is it not considered to be a professional creative tool? I wish there was a way to BYO suite, since even the one that best suits my needs comes with over a thousand dollars worth of software I have no use for.

First of all, to kill a potential rumor, Photoshop Lightroom is absolutely not being phased out in any way!!!
Generally speaking, within Adobe, Lightroom is considered more of a professional photographer's tool than a tool for the so-called creative professional and thus not something that would be used in addition to use of a suite including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Acrobat, for example. Typically, a photographer would do a certain amount of processing with Lightroom and pass the images off to those creative professional types who might further tweek or manipulate the images for publication either in print or on the web.
Ideally, it would be nice to have a BYO suite but realistically it would be a nightmare to market and support such a product given issues of product installation, update, activation, etc.
- Dov

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