Lightroom will never able to match the color/contrast of DPP?

Disclaimer, I am a current user 3.4 and I have been using LR since version 2, it is my goto for 98% of my work.  What I noticed is that it makes enough in some scenes and DPP raw files to high contrast, DPP does a better job together.  I know or assume, Adobe engineers reverse the Canon raw file format and they do a great job at it, but I wonder if there's a reason that adobe does not try specifications of raw file in Canon of license for a perfect match with Canon raw conversion software.  I spend a bit of time to make LR conversions look as good as my Canon jpg open and simply exported to the DPP.  Don't get me wrong, I have no intention to give up the flexibility I have used LR, I was wondering if they will be always perfectly nailing or is there a technique I could have overlooked that get - me much closer to the release of DPP.

Adobe does not reverse engineer something. A Raw file is a Raw file. There is no 'secret sauce' figure in Canon format everything you hear on the interweb.

The various different formats contain propriety information which are ignored by LR, such as adjustments in camera treatment, they have nothing to do with the actual data in the file that LR uses to make the files.

Raw processing tools to render differently, it's a matter of personal opinion, which is the best. If you prefer THAT rendering DPP then use rather than LR. Personally on all Canon files that I use, I can achieve more quickly and better (for me at least) results with LR that DPP, but then I don't use PLR for a few years.

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