its an interesting one isn’t it, at first glance you’d be forgiven for thinking that photography is a documentary format and why shouldn’t you try to render all the information you capture in a RAW file, but it doesn’t take long to realise that taking that approach usually leaves you with little semblance of reality in the image that comes out the other end.
once you’ve departed from reality (which regardless of how good your colour calibration tools are is impossible not to) the question probably shouldn’t be how big a departure is permissible, it should be what direction do I think would be most interesting to wander off in.
imagine if you were to write for a hobby, you could make contributions to user manuals on github, or you could try your hand at poetry. It’s funny because you could write almost anything and call it poetry, but I think a lot of people would still find that more intimidating than a bit of technical writing (which is not to trivialise technical writing by any means! I’ve been there lol).
photography is interesting because you get to to dabble in a bit of both.
edit: I did actually see this video right before I had a go at this PlayRAW which does show a little bit I think lol.