The thing about raw format is that the approach to exposure is different from that for SOOC JPEGs; this is why I haven't bothered with the camera's capability to record both raw and JPEG for almost a decade.

As far as post processing apps, I've switched away from the Adobe platform (after using Photoshop since the mid 90s).

For anyone who hasn't already spent the time to learn pp, I'd suggest DxO PhotoLab.

It's got about the best raw converter out there. Also, they have a huge library of camera/lens combinations (software company is an offshoot of DxO Labs that tests, yes, cameras and lenses). This means, not matter the camera/lens you're using, PL probably already knows how to un-do any distortion from the gear you're using.

You can set up profiles, making it dead easy to copy your raw files to your PC, fire up PL, export them all as JPEGs if you want - then you can go back and fix the ones where you mangled something.

Downsides: not a pixel editor (i.e. no layers) and cataloging isn't' nearly as good as Lightroom.

But I can do things with this semi-automatically that used to take me literally hours with Photoshop.

I'm still occasionally using my copy of PS CS6 (mostly for night sky foreground replacement), but of late, I've been using Affinity Photo (works as well as PS for what I need).

Apologies for being so long winded...