Dehaze equivalent in darktable or RawTherapee

I finally got access to the latest version of Lightroom, where I played around with dehaze on @David_LaCivita’s picture.

The effect seems to suffer from the haloing that @CarVac described:

Original

LR dehaze +50

LR dehaze +100

For comparison, here is what I achieved using darktable’s equalizer module blended with a parametric mask:

And here is a side-by-side comparison of the Lightroom, darktable, and @Carmelo_DrRaw’s edit in PhotoFlow:

General thoughts:
Dehaze +100 is an extreme case that leads to haloing, however Dehaze seems to preserve the original colours better.

darktable and PhotoFlow recover some details but seem to lose a lot of the richness of the colours.

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