Quote Originally Posted by conropl View Post
Has anyone else noticed this?
Yes. This has been a long-standing feature of Adobe Camera Raw (and therefore Lightroom). The downside is the same as most Adobe software: they don't give you any control over it. Other programs, like Bibble, let you disable the feature if desired, and even tune all the parameters of the algorithm for your particular camera (or shot). Adobe dumbs things down to the point of the extreme (IMHO).