okay so i’m trying some other stuff:
i did mean removal to the above changes.
then I did GMIC upscale DCCx12 (edit or rather the upscale diffusion is better)
and reduced the upscaled size down 50% to get back to original size.
the upscaling and resizing process smoothed out the meanremoval noise whilst still keeping the sharpness.
Sharpened Result:

Original:

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