Me too, but totally because I prefer the hardware, ease of connections, confirmed by the "click" etc.
Other than that, for short runs of cables, balanced connections, in theory can only add THD+N. Many hobbyist still believe balanced "sound better" based on hearsay and myth. It is true that in the old days, "fully" end to end differential balanced will have lower THD because it would cancel the even order harmonics, but that's a non issue with amps designed in recent years, such as the like of the Benchmark, Hypex, Purifi products that all measured with THD+N at least 10 dB below audibility, so cancel or not is a total non issue. Even if it is an issue, the topology used in end to end differential balance will only yield overall lower THD if implemented well, and if very low tolerance parts are used, that's why one would not likely find the relatively very affordable end to end balance amps such as Emotiva's, even ATI's (probably except the flag ship models) measured better than many well made amps by others such as Bryston, Parasound, McIntosh, Anthem's amps that are not truly/fully end to end balanced. Still, all moot points! Suffice to say XLRs/balanced are simply preferred by many, because of the advantage on the physical side, not so much the sonic side. Yes, I am just repeating things said before, just thought it might be worth repeating once in a while.