Use AI Denoise WITHOUT using "Raw Details"??

Yes that's what I've been trying to tell you. The demosaic is a fundamental part of the denoise. In priciple you could use the standard demosaic but they would have to redesign the entire algorithm. The reason that yellow details get more pronounced is what is in my old blog post. It has to do with red (which makes yellow together with green) has only one pixel in the 4-pixel Bayer pattern. So the AI demosaic algorithm (which hasn't actually changed much as far as I know since being introduced but might be better trained nowadays) works harder on details that rely on red. This is what caused the artefacts in my old blog post on the yellow leaves and on the rock edge which the AI algorithm fixes entirely. I also have an example image of car tail light trails in a a canyon at dusk that has significant Bayer mosaic artefacts on the trails that the AI algorithm rescues. It also helps tremendously with neon lighting that also tends to get the stair step artefacts and with moiré artefacts.   

Thanks for the comparison. Will take a look once I get back to my computre with LRC on it.

I only recently upgraded to the latest LRC, and I hadn't upgraded in a while before. I was actually using the previous version maybe a week ago, and the difference between how Denoise worked before, and how it works now with the Raw Details, seems quite different to my eyes. The details are RADICALLY SHARP now... Details were always sharp with this particular camera, but they didn't ever look like they had a sharpening algorithm applied (i.e. one that adjuts acutance). With Raw Details in the latest version of LRC, my details now DO look like they have been sharpend by an algorithm that increass acutance. 

I've ended up dropping my use of Denoise, and am back to using the classic LR noise reduction tools. They are not as good as Denoise was previously, notably in how the classic tools have no smarts with regards to what's noise vs. what is legitimate detail like Denoise does. 

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No, that is not my request. My request is to use the ai denoise, without the rogue detail enhancements that seem to be occurring with the "Raw Details" option as it now functions in the latest version of LR. 

I've been using LRC's AI-powered Denoise for a while now. I NEVER ran into the problem I am having now, where my images appear to be very over-sharpened with a sharpening algorithm. That's what I'm getting now. 

FWIW, I've never run into any of the more extreme issues that article you linked demonstrated. I am not even sure all of those examples are from LRC, one I am pretty sure was from Nikon's raw processing sofrware. I've never seen the grid patterned artifacts like that in Lightroom. 

The article also clearly states this near the beginning:

" For some cameras that have non-Bayer mosaic sensors such as Fuji's X-trans sensors, this is enormously impactful and improves almost every image. However for regular Bayer sensors, you will rarely see any improvement. I estimate that perhaps 1% of my images show any improvement and then you will only see it in humongous prints. The problems manifest in artifacts visible in the standard demosaic and are solved by the enhanced detail feature."

In my case, any image I have sharply focused, looks great (very detailed, but not overtly detailed or overly sharp) when I just import into LR and examine them. The key issue is noise, as in many of these shots I'm using higher ISO settings (800, 1600, maybe 3200). Historically, all I really had to do in the past was hit the "Denoise" button, denoise somewhere around 50%, and the noise would vanish and the details would hardly change in any particularly notable way.

NOW, with the latest version of LRC installed (which I only installed recently, so how it worked previously is pretty fresh in my mind), every time I use the "Denoise" feature, the details appear much sharper than before. In some cases, it looks like someone ran a basic sharpening algorithm that increases acutance, leaving what looks like an undue halo of bright and dark around the edges of the details that previously existed. I don't like that....don't know what else to say.  All I want is the AI powered noise reduction. I don't want anything else. Now it seems as though it is impossible not to get Adobe's enhanced details as well as noise reduction, if you use the AI powered Denoise. Or...you are stuck using their classic NR tools... 

Someone linked that Topaz has AI denoise now. I think I'll give that a try and see how it works. If it can denoise without also changing how my details look, that might solve my problem. 

I've used Canon's software in the past, and its not great. I prefer to use LR.

I don't think you are quite understanding the issue. LR demosaics ALL my images, just fine. My problem is not LR demosaicing my data. My problem is that when I use the "Denoise" tool, which is AI powered, Adobe is FORCING me to ALSO accept their "Raw Details" AI-powered detail enhancement AS WELL. 

I just want quality denoising. I don't want arbitrary and uncontrollable detail enhancements that I cannot disable. I don't know why they added that, and disabled the ability to disable it, but the feature worked just fine before without all of the extra detail enhancements. I like my details "natural", and in some cases I might defocus just very slightly to keep some details from just becoming too darn sharp.

Adobe is undoing what I am choosing to do. Its not like they do it every single time they demosaic an image. I shoot RAW, 100% of the time. Every single image I've ever processed in Lightroom has been demosaiced by Adobe's NORMAL routine. What I am specifically referring to is the "Raw Details" OPTION (always grayed out unless I deselect all other options, at which point its moot) in the "Enhance..." modal dialog. This is different, distinct, from the normal demosaicing that Adobe does with Lightroom (or Camera Raw in Photoshop) and the results, when all I wanted was to denoise, are just too darn sharp for my tastes.