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I take it you have an up to date version of Lightroom Classic CC, I regularly hit the 'auto' button after I have roughly cropped and checked white balance.
I find auto adjustments give me a good starting point. I adjust the clarity and de-haze controls, rarely more than 26 on clarity and maybe 3? on de-haze.
Noise and sharpening are the last operations. For a special image or one with particular noise issues, I take the image into NIK filters, the Dfine2 filter is very good both for regular noise and banding.
There are a lot of adjustment options and the very handy before/after swipe
This is an image I took with a D800 it was so dark you couldn't see the slates on the roof, nor even the TV aerials. The red line delineates the before/after image.
This was just taking the image into Dfine 2, I didn't adjust anything, I would expect it would be possible to improve on the default settings.
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Robert.