Basically what I said here need help for correct colors - #24 by sgotti
You get better pleasing (also if personal, but for most users) results with sigmoid with just few operations.
You answered that you can do the same with filmic but has you have now also noticed, the default hue preservation doesn’t use a norm based algorithm but an algo similar to the so called “film like” algo of rawtherapee and has a slider to choose how much to preserve. @jandren explained it better in the original sigmoid thread.
I’m not saying that we should make it the default but with a simple style where you enable sigmoid with its “aces like preset”, lens correction (btw there’s a new metadata based method just merged in master: iop/lens: add embedded lens metadata correction by sgotti · Pull Request #12714 · darktable-org/darktable · GitHub), the new highlight recovery and perhaps a bit of “color balance rgb” and call it newcomers you’ll make a lot of new darktable users very happy 
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The fire flames will be yellow and not white, the skies will be colored, the faces will be healthy and users will be happy. From that point they’ll have all the time to study the manual.