In a nutshell - if you don't intend to use (or don't have) a program like Lightroom to edit ALL your photos there is no point shooting in RAW.
Your post brought back 20 year old memories...
I started shooting stills with my first "professional" DLSR, a Nikon D1 about 2001. At the time I was still shooting about 40 weddings per year before abandoning weddings, shooting strictly commercial beginning around 2003. Under the varied lighting and shooting circumstances of weddings and events, most jpgs needed help thought the the D1 and subsequent D1x did shoot in raw. However initially Nikon charged extra for their raw editing program ($200, if I recall properly). And either jpg or raw images could be corrected one at a time.
And then along came Capture One Pro, developed by Phase One who were hawking the first medium format digital cameras. C1Pro software was revolutionary because it allowed you to view the images AND CORRECTIONS via "proxy images" (now very common) which were low rez representations, and you could make a correction on one image, then the correction parameters into any number of images. And given the slower speeds of computers 20 years ago it allowed you to process the images unattended. Prior to Capture One Pro you can imagine how long it took to get through 1000 wedding images- days. With Capture One Pro I could color correct almost 1000 PER HOUR and wait to render the images until the end of the day before I went home and let the computer process the images while I was home and sleeping.
I'm not sure what the history of Lightroom is, but I've continued with Capture One Pro which has become quite sophisticated since its inception. It now does things far beyond my ability, need and desire to learn the new stuff (just like Photoshop) and I stopped upgrading C1P after V12.
Getting back to the Adobe debacle... I never saw a need to upgrade Photoshop CS3 as my motto in that version of the program was (and still is) "If I can think it I can do it". Sadly, Adobe in its infinite greed has not allowed me to activate CS3 on my 2 year old computer, and as I am semi retired do not use Photoshop every day, but continue to have to pay Adobe as if I did. And often I will go to my 12 year old Sony laptop to do Photo editing because it is far less clumsy than the new Photoshop versions where 10 pounds of ? is stuffed into a 5 pound bag. Lightrooom? Bah humbug.