For several years there was a post-processing trend in photography in which virtually everyone was over-processing their images to produce "crunchy" (surreal) HDR looks. Thankfully that trend has passed...
Unfortunately it has been replaced by a new, equally awful, trend - the over-saturation of images.
People pull sliders for Saturation (and, Vibrance - oh yes, Vibrance can be way overdone and distort colors too) too far to the right and completely distort the colors in their captured scenes. The result is that colors in photos with overly aggressive uses of Vibrance and/or Saturation sliders have zero resemblance to reality. That is unless the makers were imbibing some interesting 'enhancements' in order to see such a thing at the time of capture or processing... Just go to any arts & wine fest in the past or current year and you will see these abuses of color adjustments.
Experts in photo processing suggest adjusting color (using either vibrance or saturation or a combo of the sliders) to your 1st "hey, this is great" impression point - then sliding back down from that point by a significant amount to a 2nd, "okay, this is artistic, includes some subtlety of color tones and will be something others can relate to" point. That is, if the goal is to create an artful (as in classic painterly art, not 60's neon poster art - even Galen Rowell went over the top in his photographic images) final effect.
It's the same theory as not creating images that are too cluttered with objects.
Less is more.
Here's a tutorial on Vibrance & Saturation. It includes illustrations. Keep in mind that the settings numbers quoted as 'extreme' for the Vibrance slider (~75) in this article are way way too high for general use vs illustrating how Vibrance & Saturation sliders differ.
https://photographylife.com/saturation-or-vibrance/
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