NCL versus Royal Caribbean on style formats

My wife and I recently took a seven day cruise on NCL's Dawn cruise ship from New York City to Bermuda and back.  We had a great time but we're not sure we would try NCL's "Freestyle" cruising anymore.

With six cruises under our belts on Royal Caribbean, we decided to try NCL because they had a outside cabin for us with 3 weeks prior booking. A last minute decision on our part to celebrate our 45th wedding anniversary. Bermuda is where we honeymooned 45 years ago and hadn't been back since. Bermuda was very nice but we remembered very little about...