Early in the darktable manual (p13 [of the pdf](https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/download/release-2.4.0/darktable-usermanual.pdf)) there is the line: 

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Which confused me a little bit. Is one of the following interpretations correct or is there a better reasoning? 

* "In camera jpeg conversion includes a little sharpening so you'll want to replicate that"
* "Humans like sharper images than the camera 'sees' so we all adapt by sharpening everything.
* "There's something about RAW that implicity reduces the sharpness and you need to compensate"

(There is [a similar question](https://photo.stackexchange.com/q/46672/67208), but that focuses on a general sharpening of all digital files, and [this interesting question](https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/9439/why-should-my-last-post-processing-step-be-sharpening) is about the ordering of the steps)