In what I find, filmic is for mapping overal tone, and get hdr into sdr.
I also notice that the shadows / blacks can be really dark.
In the first tab, raise black level or in the output tab raise the black mapping. If this yields an image that is too flat, use local contrast to get some subtle pop back.
But if it doesn’t yield what you want, it’s perfectly fine to use something like ‘shadows and highlights’ module or the ‘tone equalizer’ after filmic.
'Shadows and highlights ’ with the default settings but highlights turned to 0 is a good simple ‘raise shadow detail’ method. Tone equalizer is awesome and simple to get more control.
But filmic and ‘auto’ is not something that clicks in my head. You need to correct the exposure anyway and I see no auto way of doing that in a way I would trust it.
The defaults in filmic are very sensible and work for a lot of images… If your exposure is right. If you feel you always need to raise shadows, add the sh&hl module like I described to your preset.
… But I can’t imagine you always want to raise shadows…