Will ACR ever have an equivalent to DXO's single image HDR?

Will ACR ever have an equivalent to DXO's single image HDR?

At first glance, it seems debatable that a tool needs "zero" or "center-scale" settings that cause nothing to be done to the image...  A software designer might think, "well, he wouldn't invoke the HDR Toning tool if he didn't want an 'HDR toned look' to the result", and also perhaps "hey, he can fade the effect after the fact with Edit - Fade, or layer transparency and masking, or whatever".
For example, if there was a new "Make Image Greenish" tool, would you expect that it should have to have a 0 setting in which the image was not made any more greenish?  You might - only if all other tools worked that way (as it turns out, most DO have settings that allow you to dial-in no effect at all).
I'm not in front of my CS5 system at the moment, but isn't what you're asking for is to allow the Strength control to be able to reach all the way to 0?
Maybe Adobe gets zillions of customer complaints about functions that don't do anything, only to reach the conclusion time and again that the less-than-expert user has the "amount" or "strength" value set to 0.  I note that there are pop-up dialogs in Camera Raw now notifying you of just such things (to the tone of "you won't see any results because you have such and such set to 0").  There was a question on this forum about one of those messages not too long ago.
Personally, I'm with you.  Especially in a tool that allows programmability (actions, scripts) , all functions really SHOULD allow its controls to reach zero / no effect values.
-Noel

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