For the record, in my upcoming V2 I identified the cause of that nasty artifacting, so it’s not just from a generational loss.

I used a single color correction setting across the board, and it evidently was very harsh on dark scenes. For V2, I completely left the blacks alone, and only slightly offset the mids and highlights. It’s a bit more yellow than V1, but still a bit less so than the raw BluRay. These settings produce video which seems not to suffer appreciable degradation from the source material. I’m not sure if something was deficient of TLJ’s BluRay. A cynical part of me wonders if it was anemic so as to make the 4K version look better by comparison.

Regardless, it sounds like both edits will be looking as good as possible after sorting this out. Poppa, did you do any color correction at all for yours?