I am Globalist so we received breakfast for free. It is a fine buffet, not great, but you won't go hungry. We generally eat large late breakfast/ early lunch so in this case we had late breakfast around 10:30-11 and skipped lunch every day. One day we ended up having early dinner at 5 at the Taqueria and another night had a light dinner at Alisio. We had a larger more expensive meal at Alisio the first night there, and another night a relatively expensive meal at Fairmont La Laguna. I think the bill for 4 nights including 2-3 pool drinks and a snack was about $800 including tips and this represents 1.5 meals/day?. Breakfast is not cheap exactly, I think it's $50/pp so that was a savings for us since it subbed for lunch. I think if you are paying for 3 meals/day it would easily be $400/day for two.

It's all a matter of perspective but I didn't think the F&B prices were outrageous, especially compared to other resorts/luxe hotels I've been to. A much bigger issue is that the menus are limited, and the food was very good but not great. Personally if I was paying for breakfast here I'd definitely skip it due to my normal routine, maybe buy a few muffins at the airport and have coffee in the room for breakfast.

I wouldn't compare points cost re: food for Alila Mayakoba with an AI. Dinner at Alisio on a nice evening is a really special experience. Not super high end but just a lovely relaxing setting right on the ocean. I've only been to an AI twice but I don't remember it being relaxing with respect to food.