Until fairly recently I owned just one router. I bought it, immediately installed it in the table it came with, and it has come out of the router table exactly once since then to cut a couple slots. I have since bought one of those little “trim routers” but I still do the bulk of my routing work in the table.
I’m curious, how do the rest of you prefer to work? Do you mostly use your router handheld or in a table?
Totally depends on the task. If you do the same type of things, you’re always going to use the same type of tool.
Personally, I tend to get into very different projects. The table router is great whenever the work piece is small enough to lift. I have a second that I use for plunging and on a jig for scarfing, and a trim router that gets used on counters, tables, and bulkheads.