Difference in color and saturation between Rawtherapee preview and exported JPG

Image viewing programs, even if they “support” color management, have their implementation of color management broken in all sorts of ways. If there’s any suspicion that color management could be the issue, then compare RawTherapee’s preview to… RawTherapee’s preview. With the Editor in METM mode, open the raw image in one tab, save it, then open the saved image in another tab.