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Lotsa reasons

The effects of polarity switching, even with polarity-coherent speakers can be very subtle. The recordings themselves are not consistent, although many labels are MOSTLY consistent. Some discs have, e.g., the vocalist recorded in one polarity and the backup instruments in another, and this was intentional. Most important, If you don't have polarity switching available at your preamp, all you can do is switch speaker cables, a pain in the neck (I know whereof I speak).

On the other hand, once you've heard and can detect "right" and "wrong" polaity, it becomes something of a curse -- you can't NOT hear it. I'm not at all sure that I wouldn't prefer speakers that mask the difference, unlike my Gallo Ref 3s.

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