LOL.
Recently I have reassessed the infamous "Gold Filter" of DXHR, thanks to enabling it in DC with this: CookiePLMonster/DXHRDC-GFX: A plugin for Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut, restoring the gold filter, post processing and shading from the original Deus Ex: Human Revolution (github.com)
It fixes the lighting system and the bad (really BAD) DC bloom too (you can force the original 2011 one)!
And just avoid the SSAO, it's terrible (temporally unstable) in the DC.
Without the Gold Filter the game really looks washed out (and see my avatar )