Here is my take, as a person who attended multiple photo editing courses from professional award-winning photographers:

* Shooting intentionally for further processing is not the same as shooting for the best out-of-camera look.

* One needs to critique a photo before editing it. This YouTube video comes with a good-enough checklist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0tQB6BVpc4

* ART (https://artraweditor.github.io/) at this point, if the AI masking and denoising one-time setup has been done (see https://artraweditor.github.io/AItools), is so good that many Lightroom courses apply almost 1:1 to it.