I should probably clarify, I've never liked the Roubo bench for the work I do. If I did a lot of thicknessing and edge jointing of larger boards I think the Roubo style bench would be absolutely awesome, no questions whatsoever. It would be the same with chopping large mortices.
Unfortunately, the good features of a Roubo style bench are lost on me: its length, mass, stops, and holdfasts. I only thickness and joint large boards by hand if no other option is available. I rarely chop large mortices by hand these days. In general, the scale of the work I use a hand tool bench for doesn't match the size of a Roubo style bench.
I am typically holding smaller sized boards for finish planing, chisel work, and the odd hand cut dovetails (and power tool work). For that work, I like a shoulder vise, tail vise, a row of dogs, and a more compact footprint. Not surprisingly, I use a Scandinavian style bench, as it does the things that I like well. If I need to face joint a board too wide for my jointer and too long for my Scandi bench, I can do that on my assembly bench in a pinch.
My thoughts on the Roubo style bench really don't have anything to do with Chris Schwarz, I was familiar with it long before I had ever heard of him. That said, I don't tend to follow his videos/books. For whatever reason, he really doesn't appeal to me. I've never really known why; he does seem to be knowledgeable and skilled. Whenever I try to watch his stuff though, I tend to click to something else after a few minutes. I typically read his articles if I come across them, but I don't seek them out.
Having been in this hobby for 40+ years (as both a hobbiest and semi-professional), I've seen things come and go, and the sociology of the hobby fascinates me more and more as the years go by. When I stared, mid century modern was still in style, dowel joints were common, danish oil was the go to finish, hand planes were more or less considered obsolete, and the big tool debate was whether to get a table saw or a radial arm saw (who had money or room for both back then?).
Then there was the rise (and fall) of Shopsmith, Arts and Crafts started to come back in style, cheap East Asian tools began to make the hobby more accessible, the New Yankee workshop debuted, and boutique manufactures like Lee Valley/Veratis and Lie Nielsen started. Hand tools came back into style as well as more and more older and non electrical methods of work. Don't get me wrong, there have always been hand tool woodworkers, but nothing like the hand tool subculture of today.
Then the big change, the Internet and finally YouTube. To be a famous woodworker in the old days you had to either teach generations of students (e.g. Tage Frid) write lots of articles (e.g. Frank Klausz, Garret Hack, Christian Becksvoort, and the rest of the FWW, PW, etc crews) or be on TV (e.g. Norm, Roy Underhill). The internet really opened up the flood of woodworker teacher/inspirors. Many were ones that had been in print that saw the potential of the new medium (e.g. Schwarz, Sellers, Cosman) and others started mostly online only like Marc Spagnuolo.
It does fascinate me how things go in and out of style, like different work benches, finishes, glues, tools, sharpening methods, the whole bevel up vs bevel down thing. I could to on and on, but it is getting to be late, so I will end with, what a long strange trip it's been