If I’m fatter the hair is a better look - shaving a fat guy just looks like an oversized baby.
But if I am little, I strongly prefer to be trimmed/shaved.
I'll open the kimono and be honest. I have 3 different electric trimmers. one for my beard and neck, one for the nose, and one of those gimmicky manscapers. I use the manscaper a lot though. I trim armpits because I sweat less and stink less with it trimmed down. I trim the chest hair cause it tickles my wife's nose when I don't. I have a bakblade off amazon for self back shaving. I actually dont' think body hair "looks" bad, but I shave it for hygiene purposes and comfort.
nothing feels better than a smooth back on a fresh tshirt.
I have to try that bakblade - I get my wife to come outside a couple times a year and sheer my back and traps off to reset the field, then do the front of my torso, arms, delts on my own. But it’s a PITA schedule-wise, and I still spend a lot of the year rocking the grizzly bear look.
Which I don’t hate when everything gets long enough, but the transition time when hair is coming back isn’t a good look IMO so I’d like to do it more often myself.
I have to sheer my armpits probably every 2 months to manage sweating. I don’t bother with a razor or want it smooth like a woman; it just gets long fast so I knock it all off periodically.