RAW Converter Comparison / Challenge

Thanks for so much work to compare.  Just yesterday I was searching YT for vids on raw conversion for X5 (don't have 6 yet), and Luminar.   Omar Gonzalez and an older vid by someone else says Luminar converts Fuji raws nicely.

The company owner of  Alien Skin Exposer software uses and loves Fuji gear and so it's no surprise that it does well also and one thing I love about X5 is that it is similar to LR so it's easy to learn and use the tools and I love the tons of film sims, especially the old technicolor movie sims.

But here is one question.  Are you saying that all software, when it converts raws is really only a human beings OPINION of what the conversion should look like?.

S there no hard core math facts in raw conversion, meaning each individual raw converter may convert colors, or set amount of sharpness differently?.  If this is true then I see why it's important for you to work with each conversion to get them as best you can because you wouldn't want to judge only the straight conversion because all that would be is a set of flawed hum being decisions telling their converter how they think the raw should be displayed.   In other words, if you don't like certain aspects of the way a converter displays it's raw, it may not be the actual software's fault, but just that you may not like the decisions that the developer made when telling the software what to do with the raw.

So you are working with the files to try and eliminate initial human decisions in displaying the raw so that the actual abilities of the software don't get punished by poor human decisions in how the raw is displayed at first.  Is this correct?

This is fascinating stuff and I hope this thread gets many replies because it is involving the newest versions of these converters.

Thanks again for your time spent.