You'll have to pry my large speakers from my hands lol.
Although I do have studio monitors, I like my large floorstanding speakers of which I have more than a few.
I’ve always found that monitors, or bookshelves could never create the sound stage that a large set of speakers can. Maybe that’s just me, or maybe it’s my room. The large speakers also give me the flexibility to run my two channel set up without subwoofers if I choose. I would never be happy with the bass response produced from a set of bookshelf speakers, Studio monitors like the older JBL‘s maybe.
Also in my AVR I set my large speakers too small when running my subwoofers, and I can turn that off and run them full range if I so choose.
Everybody has different needs, and there probably is no correct answer, but in my opinion large speakers will always have a place in the audio world. I understand if people are happy with a bookshelf for monitor, and all the power to them. Happy is happy.