Library management is too limited. Catalogs have extremely limited functionality and preformance decrese with lots of photos to manage. Library management should become more like a real DAM, with better performance, advanced search, also with the help of A.I. for natural language searches. Now the power of C1 library is extremely limited comparing with almost every other payed and free softwares and really needs big improvements.
Current workaround
No workaround possible as there is no way to use an external dam.
I completely agree.
There are a number of requests for this already – see this request (which the others have been merged with): https://captureone.ideas.aha.io/ideas/FR-I-964
PS. The issue came up in the new Capture One forum yesterday: https://c1forum.com/threads/improved-handling-of-larger-catalogues-etc.217/