Well, clipping colors to the sRGB color gamut isn’t the end of the world and in some ways makes things easier:
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Many people have produced many wonderful images while doing all their editing in the sRGB color space.
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Many images don’t have any colors that exceed the sRGB color gamut, so these images don’t present any problems.
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Many of us (including me) still don’t have monitors that can display colors much beyond the sRGB color gamut. So the good news is if any “very colorful” colors do get clipped, well, probably that means at least you can actually see the colors that are still there!
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If the colors have already been clipped, then you don’t have to worry about how to modify the images to make the more colorful colors fit inside the sRGB color gamut. Bringing “very colorful” colors into the sRGB color gamut falls into the realm of soft proofing (assuming you are willing to extend the concept of soft proofing to include preparing an image for display on the web instead of confining “soft proofing” to mean preparing an image for printing). Soft proofing is often-times a difficult editing task.
Maybe in a few years we’ll all be using Rec.2020-capable monitors, and at that point dealing with “very colorful” colors will be a lot easier.
In the meantime, the nice thing about using a GUI raw processor like darktable/PhotoFlow/RawTherapee is that these programs have “out of gamut” indicators that allow you to modify the image to do something about out of gamut colors, before the image is exported to disk as an sRGB image.