That's quite OK. It's just that DT then is not the right software for you, since the dev team has an opposing viewpoint to yours.
Rawtherapee I think has a feature that tries to apply curves in order to match the built in jpeg preview.
Otherwise you might be better served by commercial software such as Lightroom or Capture One, as they work with camera manufacturers in order to match the in-camera processing.
And that's what I do. I just find it too bad because it's interface is really not bad, and it's fairly capable at what it does.
To me, I don't care really, but in 2022, photography is still an underserved segment in the open source software world. I feel like they can have their opinion, but then allow others to have a UI element to turn it on if they so choose.
There's a lot of high quality gear floating around ebay for fairly cheap compared to when they were new.
Rawtherapee I think has a feature that tries to apply curves in order to match the built in jpeg preview.
Otherwise you might be better served by commercial software such as Lightroom or Capture One, as they work with camera manufacturers in order to match the in-camera processing.