Actually that obvious tourist “trap’ cost me a cool $700/person for 3 nights 4 days, including breakfast, and return airfare from Tokyo (7 hours flight, including a transfer to and from the airport). We also rented a local car with driver and an English speaking tour guide to see the “real” people of Bali, it cost us $30/person for the whole day, including lunch and dinner. So yes, we did meet the locals and saw the incredible poverty they live in.
I did not feel the same friendliness, as in Thailand, coming from them, if anything, I felt contempt. Another bloody, rich (compared to them) white man with another, rich Japanese woman. I may be more sensitive than others.

Alex