I don't use Lightroom. In fact I barely use photo editing software; Paint Shop Pro when I do. I'm more of a documentarian so most of my shots rarely get more than a subtle tweaking of the curves or a little unsharp mask. If you're dealing with a couple of thousand shots over the course of 3 days and have to get the best to the editor the same day that they're shot, then you learn to make do.
I had three shots published by a group based in England and while they all started as RAW files (I turf out the .JPGs shortly after the event), they were all developed with the in-camera settings. One got a run through Noiseware, because it was shot at ISO 800 on a heavily overcast day. That's it.
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