Do you ever get the feeling that people aren't really listening when you talk?

This is one of those times.

The science of gamma-correction has little or nothing to do with art. It has everything to do with what a renderer does: uses linear data to process colours.

That's it.

Why is no one listening to that? Why all the hubbub, anyway? If you feed a sausage-maker eggs when it expects meat, you're going to get something like sausages, but not really. If you feed a render process sRGB data when it expects linear data...

There's no point to continue. No wonder BB started to lose his cool.

Art is art. Rendering is something software does. One is not the other.

Let me give you an example from the medical arena: sedation is not equal to analgesia. The degree of sleepiness is not the same as pain relief. Do you know how many nurses understand that? The fewest. And patients suffer needlessly because of this simple misunderstanding.

Applying or not applying GC has nothing to do with art. It has everything to do with giving your render engine appropriate colour information to work with.

Can it be that easy? YES! it's just that easy!!!

Monterey/Mint21.x/Win10 - Blender3.x - PP11.3(cm) - Musescore3.6.2

Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehen
[it is clear that humans have contempt for that which they do not understand] 

Metaphor of Chooks