I tried it when I temporarily ran out of prescribed ketamine lozenges recently. Half-life is too long and experience is very unpleasant. Not great qualities for a drug that one frequently needs to take after work.
Once it clicks, it is just as pleasurable as Ketamine, Methoxetamine, and other related ACHs.
One major difference between DXM and K is that DXM is quite stimulating whereas K is rather subdued and relaxing. If you don't have dissociative experience besides Ketamine, I'm not surprised that trying DXM after K would lead to an unpleasant experience.
> Once it clicks, it is just as pleasurable as Ketamine, Methoxetamine, and other related ACHs.
If that was the case recreational users would move exclusively to research chemicals. There is a clear preference. But in some places DXM is much easier to access so that's what people do.
Unfortunately there will probably never be one single silver bullet solution here, but another tool in the tool belt is always useful.