Too much color? hard to say 
Here is my version…
1709882624956 .dng.xmp (11.2 KB)
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I actually prefer the result in the OP, which has the right colour and brightness levels. Is that the OOC JPG? A raw developed version of that, with unclipped colour and better colour detail, would be marvellous.
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I now realise that I missed posting the XMP file. Here is my devp process.
1709882624956 .dng.xmp (10.9 KB)
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Do you happen to have a DNG generated by the stock camera app? Can be anything, although preferably under a similar illuminant.
Even better, a ColorChecker shot taken with Open Camera for the purposes of sanity checking the color profile of the DNG.
Thought I would take a second attempt. Closer, but not there yet.
1709882624956 _17.dng.xmp (87.3 KB)
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With RT 5.10-460_lacam16n_
Editing only with the “Color Appearance Cam16” module.
From neutral I only activate the automatic exposure and leave the almighty “Capture Sharpening” module in the Raw tab activated. 
20240308_1709882624956 -1.jpg.out.pp3 (20,2 KB)
Greetings!
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Well, that’s a horse of a different color.
Nice. A lily is a lily any way you color it 
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I love the yellow color of the petals, Todd, and it is what I wanted them to look like. But with my attempts at getting the “true” color from the image file, I could not come to that. I am not criticizing what you did, I am just honestly wondering what the actual, real-life color was. I want to think it was like your rendition.
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I did it to please my eye and likely not reality although maybe its not bad… Not being there its just a guess and this is sort of a bright and more “in” the sun look. If it was a bit more shadowed then things would be more muted but I liked all the color in the earth and leaves and of course the flower…
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