I think my groups have always been "roll it either way, choose each level" groups, as far as I can tell. I can't be sure as I've never chosen to take the average.
Next time I DM a new campaign I was planning to allow folk rolling HP to reroll 1s, because I noticed them doing this on the second campaign of Critical Role, and although my first impulse was to think "what nonsense is this? Play real D&D!!!" my second thought was realizing that rolling with rerolled 1s made rolling and taking the average statistically equivalent rather than (statistically) rewarding taking the average, and I appreciate the elegance of that.