Thank you for the tip! I didn’t know about the two TCA sliders but now I see what they do and finally the leaves look acceptable.
It still leaves areas where Defringe helps taking care of the final edges, though, so I still don’t think that module should have been deprecated (perhaps just a warning, like when you try to adjust the temperature in white balance module while also having the color calibration module active):
So now I’m going to investigate how the other people who posted here masked the truck. I’m crossing my fingers that there’s an alternative to manual masking which I haven’t discovered yet…