Also since preamps in powered speakers are generally fixed 100%, they pick up noise very easily whether its voltage ripples or ground loop noise. Whereas with passive speakers + a receiver that electrical noise tends to be masked significantly. This leads to orders of magnitudes difference difference in sound floors. Even $10,000/pair powered speakers will have a orders of magnitude higher passive noise floor then some cheap $200 passive speakers and a $100 entry level receiver.
If you don't like dealing with high noise floors like hissing tweeters for instance, passive speakers are often the only choice. Especially in the nearfield, if you don't always have content playing. Unless you like reaching around and turning the speakers on/off every time you decide to use it. Otherwise, hissing, amplifier buzzing, electrical voltage swings causing buzzing from the drivers, or ground loops, that kind of stuff is amplified like crazy in near-field powered speakers with built-in amps.