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How much do you use PS for, and which plug-ins do you find indispensable? Unless very old, your LR plug-ins should work with LR6, and depending on what you do with PS, you might get along fine with Affinity Photo. Also, many plug-ins come with free-standing apps, which I find very acceptable. Since roundtripping from PS/LR generally involves shipping JPEG or TIFF files, using plug-ins looses "Rawness", ,so other than a slight workflow bump, editing with a freestanding plug-in app is the same as using the plug-in itself.
Examples: OnOne suites, Macphun apps, [no longer updated] Nik. For example, LR6 supports OnOne, and you can just as easily send files from LR to the OnOne "launcher" app and do whatever you want in OnOne.
Since you mentioned PS actions: Affinity lacks actions or other serious automation at this point, but other than that it's a very good PS alternative. I used to use a lot of PS actions, but with current software capabilities (I use Capture One Pro, Affinity, MacPhun and OnOne), I really don't miss actions at all.
Again: think about what you're doing with PS/actions/plug-ins and decide how important your existing workflow is before committing your hard work to CC rentals. I think it's different if you're competing for business with pros who keep current with CC, but if it's just you for your edification and maybe some income, then think about whether you really need to stick with your current workflow.
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