Maybe my post came off as anti-Destin? I'm not - at all. And I would agree with you that Destin probably has the best dining along that strip of beach as well. Just that over my years of going, the cooking over there has just been a little subpar - but I think that's more from a food-snob comparison to New Orleans than anything else. And it's not terrible.
And when I'm at the beach, I don't usually want to go out for a big dinner anyway - just my bias.