Output Transform Tone Scale

I think you cannot find a solution by just looking at SDR images.
If you like the orange going to yellow on its path to white, that’s fine - your choice. You might be pleased by that. (I am too btw.)

But you cannot have a system that goes from orange to yellow in SDR but stays orange in HDR (or becomes yellow on a much higher luminance).
Then you would have pleasing SDR and unpleasing HDR. Or in other words a continuum from pleasing to unpleasing as you move up to HDR.
I cannot see a way how to avoid this in a per channel DRT.

The argument that in HDR more of the shift to yellow is actually happening in the eye (as supposed to on the display) and somehow counteracts the hue shift compared to SDR does not hold for my own experiments.
But I would be happy to see a prove or a small psychophysical experiment.

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