I no longer enjoy boards over 8”, outside of novelty. For me, it’s mostly the trucks: 8” trucks are a good mix of attributes. For the type of skating I do (flatground), I should probably stick with 5.0s, but I feel like they look way too small, if I have wheels greater than 50s setup. I actually skate, for me, good, on venture 5.0 HI’s, but again, the whole shit looks weird, so I don’t run it that often. More of a bad weather setup.
Lots of big boards are faking the funk imo: if you are getting towed into huge concrete sets, or jumping down big rails, sure. But it looks ridiculous when people are doing worm burner treflips, going slow, on an 8.75 with 58mm wheels