How to justify the expense of Photoshop

Mr Pohl,

Elements 11 may or may not have "90% of the functionality of the full Photoshop" but Elements 11 still seems to lack some (to me) essential features.

1  "......it's the first Elements version to support Actions, the automation system that enables you to execute complex series of effects with a keystroke. Except that you can't create them - you can only use Actions that have been built in Photoshop (and not all effects work)".  Doh!

2  The ACR version in Elements only has the first three dialogues of the ten available in Photoshop CS5/6.

I suppose you could have Light Room & Elements 11, which gives you full ACR but still no ability to create Actions.

One wonders what else is in the missing 10% that Elements 11 lacks compared to Photoshop. 

It always seems to me that Adobe are pulling a marketing trick.  For photographers wanting all the photo tools that CS6 offers but not the many others devoted to graphics designers and other non-photographers, there is no satisfactory alternative.  How many LightRoom and Elements users grow frustrated with the missing photo tools and end up buying Photoshop to get them?

SirLataxe, probably too tool-addicted.