are you telling me that you are making an improvement without deinterlacing your source? loool and it’s me who don’t know what I’m doing? I’ll give you my opinion, I don’t think you’re experienced yet, look:
where it is circled is traces of interlacing for me, how can your source be cleaner than the other if it is not deinterlaced? the red circle at the very top, I notice that there are less details than on the CTV source.
(20 compression in my case does not give me a plastic effect), and you always have to add a minimum of grain in the end;)
put the same images in comparison already to see better, or send me a sample video, I may give you a better opinion