Sup dude’s this is my first post! Been a lurker for a while and found a thread I think I might be able to help with!
Why not try and add some light reflective stuff back to the carpet?
Looks like you raked it after you RE d it ..
You will find if you run a post vacuum in the same stoke lengths of a wand you will have made the appearance twice as better.
To further ice the cake, mix up some heavy encap in a separate jug and inline sprayer all the “traffic” areas. Then either hit it with a bonnet and a 175 or just run a post vac. Encap will add a gleam effect to any carpet and really make stuff POP.
As for the dude’s talking about pre spray.. this plastic carpet reacts best with solvent’s such as ammonia …