Missing Image Attributes (Alt)

I haven’t dug into exactly how the plugin works, but it seems to me that this is what is happening:

On crop, a new attachment is created that is flagged in some way as not being an original image (meta/post_parent presumably). This image does not appear in the media library and can only be edited on the edit view of the post that it was embedded in.

Presumably meta data (eg alt/caption) is copied from the original at this time, but when reading the new image, data from the original is not merged, so updates through the media library to the parent image do not transfer. This leads to content management issues when the same image has been embedded in multiple places using AR crop, because each has their own alt tag and must be edited on different admin pages. I would recommend making the Image with AR Crop field pull meta data such as alt/caption from the parent image, at least as a field config option.