I try to stick with a fixed white balance. I avoid at all cost auto white balance. So usually for outdoor, daylight (sunny) or cloudy setting, depending on the lighting… and I am trying to use a colorchecker chart : at each of my shooting runs I try to get the colorchecker passport on my pictures, which I can then use in the app to build a profile (out of the DNG) and then use this profile in RawTherapee… But the gain in quality is really not obvious, as I think this is much harder to do a precise colorimetric work on a set of 1000 pictures for photogrammetry than this is for a portrait facing one direction… so I am still experimenting…
And yes, I agree, I also tend to use the JPG directly from the cam… much faster, much lighter to archive (data size is 4 times less), …
The only exception is when I work with my Mavic pro drone footage : the JPGs are so bad, so heavily smoothed that the JPGs are really a no go - DNGs are much much better.