The D500 is much more civilized in the recovery business, two more examples:
I used to fight with back lit/high contrast portraits and try to save all highlight detail everywhere at the expense of shadow detail with the "I'll fix it in post" train of thought. I've since come to realize that if a person is the subject and the weight of the exposure leans towards exposing them properly, not saving background highlights, the result is often better skin tones and overall appearance of the person. Of course I'll still try to mitigate blown highlights as much as I can.
These last two D500 pictures have much smaller angle of view, and as such dynamic range, than the D850 pictures you posted so perhaps not a fair comparison? Also in my experience, which admittedly is not with the D850, raising shadows on a pictures that include large bright areas, such as blown out skies, always introduces more noise than raising shadows of a scene with less dynamic range.
