Frank C,
A rifle should have "proper" bedding as special as you please, regardless of whether it has a free floated barrel, full contact barrel, up pressure at the forend tip, or pillar bedding.

Pillar bedding is not exclusive of any of those special touches, which should be utilized as needed for accuracy. Your rifle is remarkable if it shoots the same whether free floated or not.

Pillars are more about durability and strength and nonshifting POI with time than absolute accuracy. The barrel channel treatment and the bedding job as a whole, including the pillared area, has more to do with accuracy tuning, IMHO.

One more reason for pillar bedding that appears (ok, I skimmed the last hundred or so posts on this thread) to have been overlooked...
Being able to remove the barreled action from the stock and reinstall it with zero or nearly zero change in point of impact! Ya'll (that's Southern lingo) seem to forget about happens on a week long hunt in wet weather, or even dry weather involving snow and a warm cabin/tent... RUST.

You just can't get to the bottom of the action, barrel, and trigger assembly without removing the action, and on a hunt that involved a flight, you don't always have enough ammo to resight a rifle that has shifted significantly.

Solution, pillar bed receiver to bottom metal, then, (before shooting again) bed the entire action & bottom metal to the stock. The goal is to widen the footprint of the softest component, the Stock , to the hardest component, the Metal (pillars, action, bottom metal).