Bridge comes with Adobe raw
are you sure? It’s always in the past need an Adobe app which comes with Camera Raw such as PhotoShop installed, and Bridge uses the CR as a plug-in. Basically Bridge just uses the capabilities that get installed with PS (or any other licensed Adobe suite product).
I’d be really interested in Capture One, it seems a very powerful raw editor, but as a standalone product it’s really quite expensive up front. For pro use it’s pocket money, but for amateur use it seems a bit spendy… Unless of course 3 folk buy a single licence together.