I know that for each project (and one complex like yours in particular) there are so many thing you have to check/tweak/test etc. - but it improves with time and experience, usually… 😄

Clipped white: I’ve seen it, but, as there are “nothing” to recover there, the only solutions I can think of are

find another source (even with lower quality/resolution) and replace the blown highlights parts with it (using a mask)
if there are no other sources, you may prepare a lower contrast/brightness version, and again replace blown highlights with is using a mask - so you will not get “blinding whites”! 😉