In this case, experience really is the best and a 'standard' chain is not a good choice. It will wear out very fast and it will stretch very quickly. It's one of those things where it really pays to get the proper part.
I've just replaced my second chain (so I'm now on #3) and #2 was a '3rd party' X-Ring chain (Asian). It was pretty good but it did not last as long as the OE DID chain. So my 3rd one, that was just put on a few days ago, was this one => https://www.canadasmotorcycle.ca/did-42 ... chain.html
which is to say, a real DID X-Ring chain. If anything, it should be better then the OE chain.
If you were going to cheap out, then I would really cheap out and buy something like this => https://www.canadasmotorcycle.ca/rk-428 ... chain.html for $17 (!!!) and get experience with what a real cheap chain is like
At a whole $17 it would be cheap and then you would know yourself from real experience and it would not cost you much at all.I seem to get about 30,000 KM out of a quality chain. In the end it's up to you but you asked for experience, and in this specific case, quality really counts. You can stretch out the life of a chain (pardon the pun) by regular oiling and cleaning. But if the underlying chain is not sealed, then you're not going to get much life from it.
The odd thing is, different length chains are more money, and, it often seems that a longer chain is cheaper. So, depending on whether riding will be a lifelong ambition for you, it may well be worth picking up a chain breaker/riveter. In my case, buying the 130 link chain was quite a bit cheaper then buying the shorter proper length chain. Go figure