My point was that if even the developers of Resolve don’t care or don’t understand these things enough to implement it correctly, what to expect from artists? Let’s imagine, I’m a user, who read somewhere that ACES is to make my color management simpler. Just select in and out and you’re done. Yet it’s more like this now: going through ACES code on github to find any info, maybe as comments, on how to choose chromatic adaptation transform for one case or another. Not for a very rare device, but for maybe most common working space today (after camera vendor “native” spaces of course).
Here are the results of a poll I made in August this year. I have a small number of subscribers, so it’s just 83 votes. But still:
(I apologize if the images are too big or too small, I’m on my phone, so not sure about their scale relative to the page)
And as a person, who used to do color grading private master classes, I can say, that even experienced colorists often tell me that they gave up using ACES because they don’t understand it and afraid of it. Gave up before my master classes, not after 