@Claes : What I am saying is - what looks right to me at the time of post processing looks dark when I come back to view it later and especially so as prints.
But you are correct, its a matter of taste. If working in colour I often go for higher contrast and then reduce the colour saturation. If I’m using Gimp, as opposed to Rawtherapee, I often process the image as black and white and then use a copy of the original layer over the top using it to colourize the original image. I think that is what I did here. Note, this image, in hindsight is a bit dark.
