I guess I’m the odd one out lol.
I still use Octane. For the specific aesthetic that I want for my projects, I find that Octane gives me that out-of-the-box in fewer steps than Redshift.
I knew I wasn’t going to be an artist that goes back and forth between renderers so I asked myself a similar question before going all in on one renderer. When I found out all my favorite artists and even the production team behind the sci-fi shows that I loved all used Octane, that was pretty much my answer.