Peter, I'm flattered that you liked my edit, and as a courtesy to you,
I didn't post my edit because it's your topic. But now that you've given
permission, I'm happy to share it.

I use several different programs for post processing; Canon Digital Photo Professional 4 for importing RAW files and doing initial "tweaks,"
Photoshop Elements 2019, usually for creating special effects or add layers, and believe it or not, Apple Photo which used to be iPhoto. It's
a great little program that quite honestly offers more of those "tweaks" that I used on your image.

The first thing I did was decrease the exposure by -0.29, then increased the highlights +0.46, decreased shadows -.023, decreased
brightness -0.19 and just increased contrast by +0.07.

As you can see, no major adjustments....just little "tweaks" that, when combined, bring out more detail and texture.

That said, when it comes to converting a color image to B&W, I'm really terrible, so if anyone can take this image
and do a respectable conversion, with Peter's blessing, please go for it. I know I could never do a B&W justice.
Tim

The OP said to ignore the exposure while choosing. Unfortunately, I could not do that. so I ran both of them through some basic LR adjustments to come up with what I thought might be more pleasing images in both the colour and B&W. Of course, that was pleasing TO ME and might not be to either the OP or others. Once that was done, I actually liked the B&W better. The yellows can be adjusted to varying tones of grey which are quite pleasing. And the darks can be taken down to where there is a lot of contrast in the B&W - more so than in the colour version. There is detail in that foreground section that looks blown out, and that helps a lot. The colour version had a sallow look (of course! It's yellow!) that was somehow not nearly as pleasing as the B&W. And I love yellow! I played a bit with the tone of the yellow and that helped a little. But overall, I thought the B&W was a more interesting look.