I personally am very happy there's no ballad for the sake of it on this. To me, these types of songs are not a strong point for DT lately. They come across as cheesy now, they just don't have the subtlety to pull them off as well these days, especially in the lyrics.
I do love the classic ballads, Surrounded, WFS, SM, SDV, HY, TSCO etc, but they lack 'depth' lately.