I noticed your recent clap for my post above.
I just reviewed this thread recently, pondering what might be done with images shot over a year ago, now that Adobe has really stepped up their Enhance photo command in their RAW software - I suspect some of the images might actually be noticeably better - but I prefer the RAW engine in LR CC these days, so I may wait until that engine gets updated as well, which I hope will be fairly soon.
Our discussion of external LCD viewfinders now seems amost antique, since an R and and R5 have joined my corral of shooting tools. Both offer external viewing through Canon's app now also, so that should help a lot.