More important than my impression is what you like. I’m not really qualified to give specific advise, but you are already doing what would be my first tip: go and play in play raw. And then there are series of videos like Editing moments with darktable, but like you mentioned, in english.
Looks like it doesn’t load the 3.9 XMP at all but opens the photo with your DT default settings. I just took a look at 3.8.1 and recognized this.
Here is my - hopefully more usefull - edit with 3.8.1.
_16211133.NEF.xmp (8.4 KB)
