p.1 #1 · The Milky Way over Hogg Bay at Murphy's Point Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada
I'm learning both getting milky way shots and foregrounds. It's disappointing that I was still in a Class 3 in the middle of nowhere, but I like how this one turned out. Murphy's Point is one of my favourite campgrounds close to home.
I don't have/have never used a tracker, so this is just 12 shots stacked in Sequator and a blended foreground.
p.1 #2 · The Milky Way over Hogg Bay at Murphy's Point Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada
You have a lot of nice milky way detail, but it appears unprocessed. You need to bring out the sky better in your final stacked image before you blend it into your foreground image - saturation, contrast, deep sky black point. Your color balance looks very nice on my uncalibrated monitor.
When there is a lot of light glow from a nearby city/town that I can't avoid despite otherwise dark skies, I'll take liberal license and pull down the sky image to eliminate the worst of it.
People may debate every aspect of night sky shot preferences, which I won't go into, but that's how you can get a less 'disappointing' image. If you just said "I like it!", I'd agree with you.
How dark you make the foreground is the artist's license. Ask 10 people, get 11 answers and none will agree. Only the artist performing the image capture is correct.
