Thoughts on this blorb model? My new workflow is baking vertex painting from a HDRI and then manually editing it a bit.

How do I bake the current render view? Once I've baked in the vertex paint and everything, and THEN put it with a different HDRI, it looks the way I want. But if I bake it again it doesn't look the same as in the render. I'm probably misunderstanding something fundamentally.