mudgel
I still use DX plugs and I think its great that not only Cakewalk use DX but so do SONY and all my DX plugins from SONY and Cakewalk work in each others hosts.
If you want to see plain plugins have a look at the vanilla gui for all of SONY's DX plugins. not very pretty but they work a treat.
+1 for the Sony plugins. I use them all the time in Vegas, they work great, and they don't grab a whole lot of CPU either (excepting their impulse convolution reverb). WaveHammer is one of the best compressor/maximizers there is.