I also consider the main dining food to be the lowlight of a
Disney cruise. The meals are long, the descriptions pretentious, the food--as many have said--cheap banquet bad. It's not you.
The food on the lunch buffets wasn't better, but at least you could get it quickly and closer to the temperature at which it was supposed to be served.
DCL really doesn't do much of anything well in terms of food. Out of the 27 dishes I ate in the MDR, I would have allowed two of them to leave the kitchen (both cold fruit soups). Most were just edibly bland, and several were total failures--'fancy' stuff like escargot, lobster, elk, and oysters Rockefeller seemed most likely to be on that list. I would encourage them to drop the 'fine dining' charade and concentrate on doing simple, reproducible things well--
but since they also can't manage to cook a simple pizza, I'm not sure they're capable of that either!