No secret on my thoughts of it! LOL.
I like both! I love the look of ruler work on a quilt and on my own quilts, if I am not doing an all over, I definitely ditch stitch the pieced elements. From there I decide if I want to echo them with straight lines and then do a FM fill to emphasize it. Ruler work is labor intensive and very slow going but IMO the results are well worth it. The FMQ fills to me is the "fun" part.