Yup. Also “never falling apart” is an interesting design goal, but a person should not rant about tools that might possibly fall apart if you tweak a wrong slider if their own tools fall apart in their default settings after years of flailing against what turns out to be a fundamentally broken concept (that of using norms for color preservation): New Sigmoid Scene to Display mapping - #545 by jandren - norms not only CAN fail, they routinely fail and in fact the “recommended settings” are failing by default. That link shows that power norm can result in a “saturation inversion” - where, for a constant luminance input, a highly saturated blue comes out completely white but a less saturated blue does not. max() norm will result in output luminance varying with hue, which is also highly undesirable.
I’ve refrained from commenting on filmic because I think that bashing someone else’s work is bad form, but this entire thread starts on the premise of bashing someone else’s work. People in glass houses should not throw stones.