I agree with what you say but I think there is still this sort of underlying thought that if you have a profile or whatever that the raw software can and should recreate the jpg that came from the camera and then offer the ability to further "improve " on it …almost like a raw is a 16 or 32 bit tiff with the transfer function of the camera baked in but with a bit more information to edit it in shadows etc…basing this on comments and or threads like this one…again focused on reproducing some part of a jpg look…RAW sharpness with darktable