Thank you @anon41087856, this is an excellent post.
I just wish that this (and other educational) post(s) could be preserved as blog-posts — maybe on darktable.org, here on pixls.us or maybe your personal blog.
Over the past year or so I’ve read several of your educational posts and found them very insightful but I’m wondering how many I have missed and how I will find them again in the future.
Maintaining a pinned post “Aurelien’s wisdom” with links to posts like this would work as well.
Thank you for your great work!
Oliver