It just is not the biggest problem. IMHO.
There is an excellent program for processing photos - Lightroom.
It does not apply changes to the original file, and to its virtual copy and write next to the original photo format .XMP.

That is, the file does not store the photos in general any data processing, but there are changes in the supplementary file.
Also, when moving to another computer (for example), and the opening of a different version of the program, we get the same changes that originally made us.

But it is, thinking non-programmers, sorry;))