Look how confused people are about GC - a minority of users appreciate it, love it, and try to understand how to use it. Only a minority are willing to select which input maps must be anti-GC'd and which must not. (Don't anti-GC displacement or bump maps, nor any control maps for effects like makeup. Do anti-GC color maps, unless they are HDR, then don't.  .... See? Complicated)

Pro is not a designation that means "I earn money doing this." It means "I trouble myself to learn the ins and outs of powerful tools, which make powerful mistakes when abused."

So - they left GC to the Pro version only. It is a marketing segmentation decision.

TM is easier to use - you can't cut yourself with it. It makes some images look better. It does not make images look real, as in, a tool for realism.

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Renderosity forum reply notifications are wonky. If I read a follow-up in a thread, but I don't myself reply, then notifications no longer happen AT ALL on that thread. So if I seem to be ignoring a question, that's why. (Updated September 23, 2019)