I am asking for honest opinions and suggestions about my rosette image.
The acquisition details can be found in the photo. This is my third narrowband attempt and second picture processed in pixinsight, I'm still on trial

I have always struggled to get the background/contrast just right.
This image has 2 revisions and they were processed completely independently.
On the first attempt i made a shortcut of extracting the background by substraction. It was a very crude pixel math process, something along (picture - 0.8*background +0.05).
This resulted in nice contrast in the dim parts of the nebulosity, but it bothered me and after a while of looking at it despite getting mostly positive feedback, it looked artificial to me (well, it is). That's mostly why I decided to make a second attempt.
On the second try I extracted the background by division, and then used GeneralizedHyperbolicStretch (many subtle iterations) to get the contrast right. I think this looks much more natural and I definitely like it more personally, but I am of course not objective. Again, I got mostly positive feedback and most people say this version is better, but apparently many people just like the colors more. I also got feedback that the luminosity part of the first picture is actually better, the background is too dark and there is not enough contrast.
I would like to hear more opinions and suggestions on what process to use.
I am obviously also open to all feedback even if not related to the aspect I mentioned

Here is the photo in question:
https://www.astrobin.com/i3pr2c/B/
Lastly, here is a shortcut of my process:
- wbpp (drizzle 2x)
- photometric mosaic (per channel)
- blurX
- resample
- starX
- noiseX
- background extraction by division (per channel)
- statistical stretch (as preliminary step)
- foraxx script
- another round of background extraction by division (got very blue background because of uneven stretch of channels)
- multiple iterations of GHS as mentioned
- curves adjustments with convoluted color masks
I may have missed something but that captures the main points at least.
Thanks in advance and sorry for long post