Oh, indeed I swear 
… providing it is used with v.3 pixelpipe order 
And it doesn’t mean I’m complaining about Filmic - I perfectly understand what benefts it brings, why it is needed, what it does, why it is newer and future-proof and so on.
Moreover, I tinker with it from the day one on regular basis, I like (!) and prefer to use it with my black & white female portraits (subtle, gentle and overall nice tonality, easier to hide skin defects, wrinkles in harsh light), but…
It’s just me and my preferences - somehow for general, colour photos I prefer the pop and the colours of the Base curve and I control clipping with Tone EQ before the image is tonemapped by the Base curve.
Another convenient for me thing is, that Base curve doesn’t care about where the black point starts or white point ends and so on. I don’t have to anchor the exposure around middle grey, which all leads to simple fact, that working with it resembles working with my mirrorless camera - if I see an image on the camera’s display and the exposure looks good to me, I know that after applying my base curve it will look the same – again – to me
So:
- I respect the decisions made by developers.
- I understand why they made it.
- I use new provided tools.
- But I also follow my taste and I’ve chosen my beloved tools & workflow.
All of this may be also usefull for @strumpfli and Filmic RGB as a default module - Software / darktable - discuss.pixls.us
Thanks for mentioning my preset