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EDIT - having said that (and looked at some benchmarks), the CPU is actually not all that bad - your 8 cores would do the job for LR. But I'm an Intel snob.
It's probably just me, but I like to 'future proof' my builds as much as I can - but if you're not arsed about that, then it's fine.
Future proofing just depends on how soon you think you're going to need an upgrade.
The OP is upgrading from a 10yr old dual core machine. The AMD FX with 16GB of RAM is likely to be good enough for 3 years or more. So it will be fine.
If you happen to like having the absolute latest CPU and highest spec PC, then you can sink as much money as you like into new parts every year or so. It seems that socket design and RAM specs changes every couple of years, so you end up needing a motherboard change sooner or later. There is no future proofing
Actually looking at the 2 bundles again, they are both the same price, but the Intel i5 bundle only has 8GB of RAM and the AMD bundle gets you 16GB of RAM. So, considering you get twice as much RAM and a (slightly) better performing CPU for the same price, the AMD bundle has the edge.