We did our first non-DP trip last year, and I don't think we'll go back to it. We put our "food budget" on a GC, and it worked out great. We ordered what we wanted, shared what we wanted, ordered extra of what we wanted, and we still came out ahead of the DP cost.

If it is "free", then it may still be a better deal, but otherwise, we loved eating like normal people, not tied to the DP rules.