"I didn't say that you can't get by, but that the dance doesn't come alive. I'm suggesting, of course, that this may be part of the reason why some dancers don't like it."
If it doesn't come alive, then you don't yet understand the elements you are using.
You don't need fancy choreography to make something come alive, you need mastery (to your own moderate satisfaction) of what you are using.
The people who really don't like it most likely do not have basic competence in the fundamental type of moving through steps action involved. Without that it would be quite uncomfortable.