I agree with your point, but just to be clear for people: When you bring that RAW photo into something like Lightroom or Capture One they’re automatically appl

I agree with your point, but just to be clear for people: When you bring that RAW photo into something like Lightroom or Capture One they’re automatically applying a base curve to the photo before you do anything. In Capture One you can set that to “flat” which I believe is fairly unprocessed, and it takes a lot of work to get it to a usable state from there. They also have other options, and they recently changed their default setting and it’s pretty incredible how different it is from their old default.