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Yeah, HDR is complete and utter rubbish. Clown vomit filter.
Nowadays, at least in Canon's implementation of Exposure Simulation Live View, you can see /exactly/ what your exposure is going to look like.
Coupled with the depth of field preview button, precise filter placement/dithering, set your aperture, and play with exposure compensation while keeping an eye on the highlights and/or histogram, you get a perfect exposure.
Of course, it's always a good idea to bracket, just in case, and, for scenarios where's there's objects obscuring the horizon such as the image in the original post, so that you can carefully blend those objects in post.
However, that's the reason why soft-step filters were invented -- to deal with foreground objects, mountains and such.
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