if I need hypers, I'm too far away
That remains true.
I use hypers up close mostly for two reasons (other than an occasional spot): modified Blumlien, where it adds enough forward bias that it works far more often than crossed 8's do; and L/C/R three main mic setups where I need the additional side rejection of the pattern to have all three mics angled at reasonable forward angles, otherwise the outside pair would need to be pointing fully sideways or even backwards. For both of those things my Gefells and ADK TLs in hyper work great and sound very good.
I don't use them because I'm far away, that's just a crutch supporting broken location for me. Might help limp home but the broken leg is still there.
But that's just my MO, I don't mean to offend bar tapers who use them to reject the yap!