I’ll take yournword for it, I’ve never used Lightroom.

Whenever I played around with Darktable it seems finding a tutorial to get the effect I wanted was just a minute of searching away, and there’s a ton of beginner tutorials available too.
www.darktable.org/2024/12/howto-in-5.0/

But then I was the kid that rtfm the game manual on my way home from the store and love dense UIs as an adult. :)