Do you see RAW editing as enhancing reality or recreating it?

When editing RAW files, I sometimes wonder where the line is between correcting an image and completely reshaping it.
The flexibility is amazing but it also feels like you can move very far from what the scene actually looked like sometimes with the styles?

It also takes a lot of time to post process when it’s just for hobby photos. Do you sometimes ask yourself this and did you ever go back to jpeg shoots? What was the results ?