As you say, RAW is designed to keep everything possible and does.

What it is is that the settings in the camera pre-set the variables for that file for a RAW converter program. From 350D in DPP, there is a set of sliders equivalent to those in camera 'parameters'. From 80D there are 4 'non-picture controls' which, if you do revisit, show camera settings as 'unchanged' for you to change if you wish - or you can just skip that step.

On your CR2, the sharpness slider shows up as 1 on a 10 point scale whereas contrast, colour tone and saturation come through as 5.

My instinct is that the manufacturer's own software has the closest analogue to the camera's built-in computer, so to sharpen Victoria, I set scale to say 7 in DPP rather than mess with it in editing software. In DPP, setting the sharpness scale higher than 7 usually leads to halos and noise, same as careless use of unsharp mask - maybe that is all it is. In NX the sharpen in the camera controls is far superior to using USM later, but that is available for .nef origin files only.