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Software is not smart. It doesn't know what the scene you were trying to capture looked like.
HDR (tone mapping) attempts to assign values to each pixel based upon input files and tries to blend the images together to present something that is palatable. Problem is, it doesn't work. This is coming from someone who was heavily invested in HDR. I look back at what I thought was hot at the time and want to claw my eyes out.
As an artistic filter it is fine, but as a means to an end, particularly as far as landscape photography is concerned, it simply doesn't work.
I don't know how things are nowadays, but, when I was hot for it four years ago, there were halos and saturation artifacts strewn throughout the images.
Blending exposures manually and using filters gives you, as the photographer and artist the ultimate control and the ability to present what you saw in your minds eye.
Just my opinion. Your mileage may vary.
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