I prefer it with stars, but I agree the smaller ones are dominating the field a bit. The great thing about starnet++, in PixInsight anyway, I assume it's the same for the main program, is you can use it to create a star mask after a minimal stretch and then subtract this from your image to produce the starless image. I prefer this way as it is quicker and you get the stars and the starless image to work on independently. I then work on the starless image and add the stars back right at then end, giving me much tighter stars with better colour.
Edit - I see that since the starless jpg mentions ABE you have PI, there is a starnet++ module for PI:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sta...nsight_module/
It works brilliantly and is very easy to add to PI.