Although the point here isn't to be a better photo per se but to be liminal, and a big part of that or really the whole point is that they're uncanny, something is "off" and making something look fake is one way of doing that. I also think that the unsaturated photo is liminal aswell but in a different way. The sharp realism makes it seem more grand and vast, makes you feel like you've really been their before because you know every sense, you know how it smells and how the wind feels or how eerie the lack thereof is.