Yuk. Over-something. Not sure what.

Why remove the haze? It's part of the image, it's what was there at the time?

The first image looks great...and when folks paint a scene like this they paint distant objects with less contrast because it looks natural to us...it's a clue about distance.

If it were me, I'd buck the current trend to fix photos in post processing and think about things like "when can I come back to this spot then the light is really nice? or "This is a nice scene...I should come back when there are a lot of storm clouds..." or something like that.