I started off repairing speakers as help to my friends, maybe 35 years ago or a bit more.
Then started making and selling one off customs when I realized the process was fun and has huge markups.
So I began designing by the books, and augmented that by ear, not by looking at graphs on a screen. My speakers were always made with the room, placement, and listening position in mind, as well as the buyer's tastes and intended usage.
The past few years I have returned to the coherence of a good full range, integrated with a sub. For this, I've settled on an active two crossover. Compared to a couple of DSP models, (friends lent me and greatly helped configure) it just sounds more natural to me.
I'm impressed with the time alignment capabilities of DSP, but ultimately my design doesn't need it, and the limited room interaction of the dipole speakers doesn't need room correction . Whether the processing scrubs some sort of detail, or the active crossovers add some coloration, I can't determine.
I this simple setup I have a better sense of space with analog, not high end professional crossovers.
My one glaring example is with movies.
In my all in one 2 channel system, pretty often an on-screen vehicle or event will have the sound of something with front to back effects.
To a lesser degree, most records played will seem to make my speakers vanish (and they aren't small, 4 foot 5 inches tall), and instead it's like looking through a window at a 3D area where the sound comes from the whole front wall.
This is the effect I was after with a couple assisted kicks at the can with DSP, and couldn't find it over the course of a month or so.
It could be very doable for someone more experienced , but I'm not going to chase it if I already have it with what I've already got in stock.