Really? Good to know! I thought it was about everyone taking a shot at exposing a complex scene, but you’re saying, anything goes, we can turn it into an art project more than photo processing?
Ah yes yes you are right, I do see people mention crazy stuff like using greycstoration filters, that’s definitely in the category of post-processing… I was thinking it was just in the exposure part.
g’mic yes yes I hate name changes 
I still refer to hugin as panotools too, I’ll go kick Pablo some more about that.
PS: What are we going to do now, though? RAW processing used to be about taking a high-bit full sensor data and exposing data as colors down to a measly 16M colors. But when was the last time you saved an image not 16bpp?
Even crappy $1000 laptops come with 10 even 12-bit 4k displays now, and next year we’ll trade our 4k HDR TVs for 8Ks. Most of us have 32G RAM or more, our phones are 8-core SoCs, and our GPUs that rival supercomputers of the '70s. Processing power in abundance as far as RT processing goes, it can be considered realtime even on my gigapan 250MP composites.
I mean Samsung is chugging out 50MP and 108MP sensors that rival CMOS, apparently not intended for cameras but freaking smartphones? I think they’re mad as us for sticking with Canon/Nikon/Sony/etc. I wonder if the world will move back to the lightfield capture where all exposures are one? That will make the exposure part even more “artistic”, won’t it?
Still not sure I agree with downscaling not being “cheating” but if that’s the rules, that’s the rules. 