International Day Pass - How to Better Use with Texting

This is a follow-up to my similar post in May 2023. I recently traveled to Switzerland and once again found IDP to be frustrating (for texting). I'm (once again) looking for advice on whether it's possible to handle this situation better.

AT&T's website says you can use IDP to "Access your eligible plan in 210+ destinations with unlimited talk, text, and high-speed data : for $10/day". Here's my understanding of each of these three situations:

1. Data: Since it's difficult to know how much data you're using for any transaction (browser search, checking email, using an app, etc.), and, at AT&T's pay-per-use rate of $2.05/MB (without IDP), costs can add up quickly. So imho IDP is a great feature for data. Also, since I have a phone setting to turn off roaming, I don't accidentally start using data and then inadvertently get charged $10 without realizing it.
2. Talk: It's a little easier to know how many minutes you're using (watch the clock when you're on the phone), but...this is still fairly impractical. Once again, at AT&T's pay-per-use rate of $2/minute in Europe, costs can add up quickly. So once again, IDP is a great feature for talk. It's slightly more difficult to control -- there's no equivalent phone setting such as "disable answering phone calls when in another country" -- but if you don't want to be charged $10, the simple solution is...don't make any phone calls, and if you get an incoming call, don't answer it.
3. Text: This is the case I find frustrating. Unlike Data and Talk, it's very easy for me to stay on top of how many texts I send (I've taken international trips for many years without IDP, sent a few texts as needed, and have *never* accidentally run up a large bill). When I was recently in Switzerland, there were a couple of days when I wanted to reply to one or two incoming texts from someone back in the US. AT&T's pay-per-use rates are $0.50/text message and $1.30/message with pictures/video. The problem is that, let's say I want to send two texts in a given day (specifically, in a given 24-hour period), it now costs me $10, not $1 (2 x $0.50). On an international trip back in April, when I didn't understand how IDP worked (the subject of my previous post linked above), I sent 21 texts over 8 different 24-hour periods: instead of costing me $10.50, to my surprise it cost me $80.

So...thumbs up to AT&T for providing IDP for data and talk; I have no complaints with this. With texting, though, I find this limiting (it's limiting in that it seems to be all-or-nothing: I guess I could have AT&T disable IDP completely, but that would apply to data and talk as well as text). Given that I don't want/need to send hundreds of texts during an international trip, I'd just like to be able to send a small number of text messages without incurring a $10 charge each time I do this. And yes, I realize that if I did want to send hundreds of texts, IDP would be very useful. But, for me, that just doesn't happen.

Is it possible to handle this better? Is there a phone setting that I should be using? BTW: My solution during this last trip was...don't reply to any texts, wait a few hours, or day or two, until I'm on wifi, and then send an email instead with the apologetic first line of "Sorry I didn't reply to your text, but I have a cell phone plan that charges me $10 to do so...".