That is quite impressive, I got to say. It’s almost exactly what I expected… Your mention of “velvia” reminds me that I did choose a specific “landscape” film emulation (called “Velvia” too! coincidence?) on the camera for that shot.
I see you used the “color look up table” early on in the history stack: what does that do? It seems to be the key change the fixes the color on the bridge to restore the original JPEG… or maybe the history is not ordered the same way here?
Yeah. I think most of the problems I had in that space were night shots with odd colors like this. Day shots are way more faithful to the original scene. And for sure, RAWs do allow much more flexibility, but the amount of work required just to get to a basic “normal” scene seems a little prohibitive in those cases…
Definitely. I’ve had great experience recovering lost dark zones or compensating for exposure with DT, don’t get me wrong. But this makes me think I should definitely look at the styles uploaded in that thread:
Maybe they could give me a better basis to work from without too much work?
And yeah, I obviously have a lot more to learn. But thankfully, there’s an awesome community here (and elsewhere!): that helps tremendously.
It would be great if the rendering was better out of the box. I still can’t quite fathom why the colors were so out of whack on that bridge: it’s not just that it doesn’t match the original JPEG’s color, there’s just something weird with the overexposure or something. Maybe, as you said, it’s something to do with the gamut: those are LEDs, after all, on that bridge, and those might show up weirdly on the sensor or something. If only I could remember what the actual color was with my eyes now… 
Anyways: thank you so much everyone, that is a really impressive response!