Why not set up one or two of your Shooting Menu groups for Jpeg and the other for raw while you decide.

I always shoot raw and always the Standard Picture Control then adjust in post. The ability to remove in-camera sharpen and then selectively resharpen only the bits you want leaves a much less noisy texture on the out-of-focus areas. Also, the ability ot change WB after the fact in RAW is major for me.

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