Cycles is defintely the one if you want good looking lighting w/ shadows and reflections/so on. Here are some example renders I do (I’m a little lazy to link them 
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Look in “SHOWCASE” and you’ll find the renders 
Eevee should be only used if you’re looking for a quick render for a test OR you don’t really care that much about shadows and small details.
Cycles = More better lighting/slow
Eevee = Okay lighting/fast/quick tests
Plus, you can defintely speed up render times. Just slap on some denoise nodes, turn down samples, lights, etc. Doing these steps mostly takes me 10 minutes on more expensive renders (at times though)
Also I’m very glad you didn’t restrict the poll to artists only, thank you
Another thing, you can utilize composition to get glow on glowing objects. Works perfectly fine and is MUCH more customizable imo.