I was a massive cheese love before going non dairy but I’ve never fully understood peoples gripe with non dairy cheese. If any were different I just chalk it up like a different variant of cheese. Dairy cheese come in all different flavours and textures too. Like red leicester vs cheddar vs Gloucester vs wensleydale. All are different, some more so than others. I think trying to find a non dairy cheese to replace a specific kind you liked is always going to be troublesome. Some non dairy cheese don’t help themselves but calling themselves “cheddar style” etc though so they give people that expectation from the bat.

I find for pizzas as long as they’re meltable (which most are nowadays anyway) I can get away with, it’s then just having different flavours depending on which one I’ve got in the fridge on the day. Some times I’ll have a pre-grated “mozzarella”-like or sometimes it’s just a block of tescos own nondescript “cheddar” style cheese.

I think most that I end up feeling are coconut oil based, but that’s just because it seems to be the standard. I sometimes get artisan cashew cheese but that’s more for having on crackers or digestives though.