DIY & Home Improvement

It would depend on the actual shower, to be honest.
We have a very small shower in the older part of the house and there would not be room to comfortably use a hand held shower head,
but
we have a larger bathroom with an old fashioned claw foot tub that I am thinking of turning into a shower and I could use a hand held in there, it would be easier in many ways, and I could bathe the dog, which would make one handy.

Mr. Dixie, who cannot stand easily on both feet, would prefer to NOT have a hand held unless, like you said, there was a bench in the shower.

So it depends on a lot of factors.