I'm not in the mood for posting a wall of text, so here is the result of last week's attempt at M16. The night was cut short by a self-combusting dew heater controller, so no dew control and the inevitable condensation...
The processing workflow was the same as always - stack and pre-process in Siril, then use starnet++ to separate the image into stars / starless layers for further processing and then recombining with Siril and Affinity Photo.
I'm hard-pushed to decide which one I like the best, as I like elements of both of them...