I must say that frame to my eye is much more el'natural and pleasing to view. Yes, those objects shown are much easier to distinguish now.
The higher magnitude stars don't appear round but double spiked, and I've seen this with my images when processing bfore, but I can't put my finger on how it is caused at the moment(tired , memory bad) but I 'think' I've seen this with a certain stacking method or too strong deconvolve routine?