You still have the full latitude with craw, where it breaks down is with lifting extremely deep shadows, way more than the shadows slider in your editor allows. So a 2 stop exposure boost on top of moving that slider.I think a lot of the benefits come when the subjects etc are moving in different light — imagine a stadium that is partly shaded and you have athletes running down the 100m track moving from sun to shade to sun to shade.
The camera meter is not perfect and I would shoot -1 EV or more to protect highlights. That’s when having the latitude of full RAW helps.
The only situation where I could see a visual difference between RAW and cRAW is with extreme lowlight pictures, ISO25600 that are under exposed. With cRAW DxO will struggle more with keeping details in the shadows.
For me, missing a shot due to buffer issues is worse than not having details when lifting shadows 4 or 5 stops. But for night shots I do switch to RAW
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