Sorry I didn't follow up sooner. I made several other tries with the same slightly overbrightened end result. Tried reimporting the source file, creating a new sequence, double-checking everything was on Rec. 709, etc. The only thing I didn't try was another codec within Voukouder, instead of SVT-AV1. Something I wanted to do but got distracted. Exporting in HEVC directly through Premiere came out fine.
So the next thing I'll try is installing the latest version of Premiere 2026 that just came out, the latest version of Voukoder, et cetera, and trying again on vanilla settings. May take me a couple of weeks to find the time, but I'll try to post all my exact settings to make sure someone can reproduce this if I still have this problem. I can't believe Adobe just deleted that post like that.