They're probably not ever going to give you answers, they'll just preach to you about either having a professional monitor, or that you need to change your monitor's settings so the color 8,8,8 looks the same as 0,0,0 and like magic, you won't notice the problem anymore, and if you don't notice it anymore, the problem has actually disappeared, or so that's the logic people are using. There's clearly a problem, and it wasn't there in v12 2018. I'll attach a couple images really putting on full display what happens to images/video when Premiere renders/exports a video. The first image shows what the colors are supposed to look like and the numbers for them are written on the bottom left of each section. The second image shows what that same image looks like after it's rendered/exported in Premiere, and I list what the new colors actually are in red. Sure, 0,0,0 black stays black, but everything else gets pushed up. I doubt this will ever get resolved. There are some deep-seated bugs that they'll probably never fix. There are workarounds for this, however. First off, you want to be able to see what the rendered/exported video will look like in the monitoring window: Go to Preferences, General, and uncheck the option "Display Color Management". Now it will look the way it will actually render. To put a bandaid on the problem, you can create an adjustment layer and add a gamma adjustment to it. Go to the Project Panel (the place where you see icons for the files you've imported), click on the option to the left of the trashcan, it looks like a new page icon, and select "Adjustment Layer", and then click OK on the window that follows. Now take that and drag it onto the timeline above the rest of your video and stretch it to the entirety of the video. Now, with the Adjustment Layer selected, go to your effects and type "gamma" into the search box, and double-click "Gamma Correction". Now, in Effect Controls, find Gamma Correction and change 10 to 14. It's a bandaid, and it doesn't work that great, but it's the only good option available at this time. Again, I doubt they'll ever fix this problem, they'll not consider it a real problem because "professionals" don't notice anything wrong. That's how this forum and Adobe works. We're nobodies, our concerns don't matter.
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