you have effectively recover dark things but you now less see things in the white things as you can’t almost not see anymore the details i was talking before
that’s why your references have to be “perfect” else you’ll loose something if you don’t have perfect reference you’ll have to alter manually colors and work with tone yourself to recover the dark things without destroying the white
That is what the program was supposed to do. It successfully matched the color of the star war blu-ray to the reference. The whites in the matched image was blown out because the white in the reference image was also blown out. Your observation is really off.
From my tests, it was more like the priority decision of the color matching has to do with the size of the color. If I have a big chunk of red in the image, that red will have higher matching priority than some smaller reds. For example, in my comparison images, if I make a montage reference by stacking this current shot and a close up shot of the yellow shoes and then use that resulting LUT on this current shot, the yellow shoe would be matched.