This is one of the big disconnects commonly - completely misunderstanding the user’s use cases, and forcing one’s own assumptions about how the world should work upon them. This is why when dealing with bug reports, I routinely ask questions, such as “did you mean X?” and “if Y did not work for you, why?” rather than immediately declare someone’s use case to be invalid.
See How to shoot and edit real estate photos - #19 by anon41087856 including his assertion that the OP is unlikely to achieve success as a real estate photographer and How to shoot and edit real estate photos - #29 by anon41087856 . There’s also How to shoot and edit real estate photos - #16 by anon41087856 which clearly shows that he judged something without testing it, or even reading the manual - solely based on a banner image without realizing, for example, that HDRMerge does not tonemap and if you don’t like the tonemapping, blame whatever tool DID do the tonemapping, because that tool was NOT HDRMerge. Just like with this thread, I am 99% certain Aurelian saw some words, started frothing at the mouth, and rushed to judgement and started writing out his condescending rant without even reading the manual or trying the tool, or even bothering to attempt to understand its design and/or intended use cases.
This shows the flaws of inflexibility, and also a complete and total misunderstanding of the real estate photography industry. Real estate clients do not give a shit about whether your postprocessing obeys the laws of physics. In fact, unless you are bringing strobes for your real estate shoot to greatly increase light levels, real estate clients expect you to disrespect the balance between in and out. Dark interiors do not sell houses. Blown-out exteriors also look like crap and do not sell houses. Clients want to be able to see what the view out the window looks like, and they don’t want to spend time looking at two separate images to do it. One may hate that this is standard industry practice, but it does not invalidate that it IS standard industry practice and good luck in changing said practice. Especially good luck changing it when you consistently declare everyone else’s work to be “shit” and “pixel garbage” if it doesn’t fit your narrow-minded view of how the world should work. Real estate is not the only industry which a user is going to have to operate in and for which industry expectations are going to violate the inflexible sensibilities of an uncompromising purist.