>>2854341RT's auto-exposure uses compulsory highlight compensation in a way that pretty much ensures all output will be pastelly and borderline HDR. I pointed this out to them and asked for a way to disable it, but the method they suggested basically means you can't auto-expose either. One of their main devs is evidently rather partial to it.
Now I use darktable.
But ufraw is also just as capable, albeit slightly more tedious to use....