Great to see you!
Hope you had a nice Xmas day
(I did... got a book on everything photography, photographers, styles, movements and so on...)
I did try Acros in 120 once and was quite impressed. But like you said, it is more contrasty than most Kodak stock.
I developed mine in HC-110 Dil.B. What helped I think is that mine was shot in a pinhole camera. Since they're a bit low contrast to begin with, the high contrast of the film compensated a bit.