So, this afternoon I was out walking Harry the Wonder Dog and carrying the camera (I'm sure some of my neighbors were wondering what that guy was doing taking pictures every time his dog stopped to pee) and I took a few cloud shots. Here are three different edits of the same image. The first one is the way it came out of the camera except for some slight cropping to eliminate a few branches. The second one has the saturation turned up somewhat. And the third increased the contrast and auto-stabilized using Topaz's Sharpen AI filter.
What's too much?
(FYI, The post title is the opening line of Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now." I'm probably showing my age when I tell you I first heard this at a Judy Collins concert.")
Interesting images, Andrew! The sort I like to take, and can rarely make into something I'm really satisfied with in the end, personally.
Your processing is not "too much" in a general sense, but I find that each edit is simply a bit too dark and/or saturated at top left - at least in conveying a simple image of a cloud, rather than a more imaginative or impressionistic image. The images look fine at bottom right, but there's an unsettling transition for me at the diagonal line where it darkens at top left.
I'd even it out, and increase the mid-tone contrast a bit.