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Your assessment is correct. In Maps Made Easy, GCPs only affect the alignment of the reconstructed model to the real world. The Camera GPS workflow will create the most accurate 3D models from which the volume measurements are made.
We haven't made it an option on the manual workflows simply because of the minimal amount of jobs that get run that way. If you have DJI gear, you should be using the EXIF based workflow. We expect to open it up to the other workflows in our next release.
We have gotten reports that our numbers are well within 1% of the readings people are getting using Pix4D or Agisoft.
This topic is also discussed here:
http://support.dronesmadeeasy.com/hc/communities/public/questions/204552986-Volumetric-Calculation-and-Manual-GPS