I’ve barely scratched the surface with NLP but I am very conversant with printing from colour negative in the darkroom. There you can only change the exposure, the colour filtration and possibly the brand of paper though the choice was always pretty limited, I always printed using Fuji Crystal Archive and the chemistry (and relenishment) was taken care by Fuji in a Durst Printo setup, excellent in my view.
So it struck a chord for me when I saw Nate say the following in answer to questions in this thread:
Q. Our digital workflow includes so many more levers. But shouldn’t our default be as simple as RA-4? Beyond that, pull the digital levers for creative adventures.
Nate:
"I could perhaps introduce a “mode” where you only see adjustment tools in Negative Lab Pro that were possible in RA-4. Or, you could try the following:
Set the tone profile to “Linear-Flat”
Only adjust the “Brightness” and “Temp/Tint” sliders in Negative Lab Pro.
But many people use Negative Lab Pro for different reasons and expecting different outputs, so I try to make it as flexible as possible to work with many different setups and desired results."
I don’t know if this is still true with the latest versions but I liked the sound of a setting where you could switch off the ‘Adaptive’ side of things.