Lightroom changes bright vivid photos into dull counterparts when opening them after an import

Everytime I import photos, Nikon RAW (NEF), the photos look as I want them at first, but as soon as I open a photo, Lightroom changes the photo to "dull" colors.
I have NOT set any import preferences of my own.
This is so annoying and I can't figure out what I am doing wrong.
The problem is most noticable for pictures with a nice blue sky, which is not nice after Lightroom has interfered !

What you’re doing wrong is expecting Lightroom to produce identical results to Nikon software, which it can never do, since Adobe and Nikon are independent companies with their own raw conversion that the other cannot know. In short, the Adobe Raw Engine in Lightroom and Photoshop is not the Nikon Raw Engine that is both in the camera and in the Nikon software.
What you are seeing is the camera produced preview image momentarily, and then Adobe’s rendering after LR has had time to compute it from the raw data.
If you don’t like how LR is doing things then figure out what settings you do like for your NEF files in LR and make them the LR defaults.
One suggestion is to use the Camera Standard profile instead of the Adobe Standard profile down in the Camera Calibration section.
Another thing that will cause confusion is if you have Auto D-Lighting (or whatever it’s called) turned on in the camera. This makes the camera try to correct bad exposures. Lightroom won’t know anything about how the camera is correcting the exposures so you’re left with Adobe’s uncorrected interpretation of the raw data which may look quite different.
Adobe also does not know anything about custom curves if you’ve loaded those.
If you want you might even try Auto toning in LR, which tells LR to try and correct for bad exposures. LR may or may not guess, right, though, so expect to do your own adjusting much of the time.

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