I plan to add keywords to the Finder-side of things because that doesn’t have that restriction / limitation.
I’m not sure if that wouldn’t become an overload for me. Currently I do use keywords in finder – just not for photos but for file metadata. And I’m a lousy keyworder: 58% of my images have no keyword at all and if the ones with keywords have all applicable keywords of a keyword catalog of nearly 1200 entries, growing over the past 6 years? I very much doubt so. I’d still be most happy if I’d be able to using the folder > project > album > smart album hierarchy I got used to in Aperture and tried to develop in C1. With the downside that C1’s programmers aren’t interested in giving the users a fulltext search for these structural elements of their own DAM.
I can understand that keywords can be helpful in big databases with more than 1 user. But I catched myself using the AI search of Excire more successful than guessing which keyword would apply to an image I am looking for.