Sorry but no, scanning color negatives was professional workflow in the late 90s, early 2000s once professional photographers had access to quality scanners. Results can and should be superior to color transparencies because of the negative film's greater tonal range.
Prior to this the professional workflow relied on "matching" color transparencies to the scans and printed results. This allowed the photographer to hand off their color slides and "chromes" to a color separator or photo lab whose instructions were to "match the colors of the transparency". Which was impossible but the best craftspeople did as well as they could.
Once you start scanning negatives you loose any outside reference. Was the sky blue? This blue or that blue? If you have a "grey" card or stretch of asphalt it is possible to click using the midtown eyedropper on the Curves control on an intended grey pixel and have the entire image shift to that representation. Or not, you can be creative and shift things blue-yellow and green-magenta. Or work in a entirely different color space. All that matters is that you make your corrections and arrive at the image you want on screen.
Then if profiles are good and your screen is neutralized if not calibrated, you're at the same point as a transparency scan. Except with negative you can hold highlight detail and open up shadows to a far greater extent than transparency.
There is a lot more to this of course but please don't give up hope. Stick with it!
In the case of Vue Scan I think the developer had unique ideas about workflow. Basically you're getting a RAW file similar to your RAW digital camera files. The preview in the Vue Scan screen will ALWAYS look terrible and it will never be "nice". You get it as close as you can without going nuts in Vue Scan but then you take that RAW file it exports and work on it in Adobe Camera Raw, Lightroom, or some other less destructive editing program. I suppose Capture One would work too.
What you want is to do all the moves in one process using Camera Raw, Lightroom, etc. to maintain the most file integrity possible (as opposed to using Photoshop and saving after every step). This is also why you over scan at a higher resolution and bit depth than you need to end up with... you'll be loosing information with every step.
Just remember that with transparencies it was even worse. They just look better in the process. Plenty of "old school" people kept shooting slides and chromes because their workflow worked (and they lit things in the studio to keep their subjects within the transparency film's shorter tonal range.)
(Also a lot of scanners run into trouble with film grain and noise with certain films (B&W, anything grainy) but the Coolscan 5000 should be pretty good with Color Neg.)
I used Vue Scan this way with mostly Minolta film scanners for a dozen years. All of the consumer scanner software has truly lousy preview functions (Epson, Microtek) but the better drum and high end CCD scanners actually gave you decent previews.