I’m using the army painter wet palette and I’m not using the complete surface in on session so I don’t really see any advantages on either two palettes or one large one. I think it depends on how many different paints you use in one session to be used over a long time.

I have the Redgrass orange “everlasting” wet palette. It’s nice, I suppose. But I don’t really feel any difference between it and my home-made sponge-and-baking-parchment-in-a-school-geometry-set-case set-up. Like @sundancer, I don’t fill the entire area (of my smaller homebrew one even) in a single session, so the extra area doesn’t really offer much benefit.

Personally, I think I prefer the smaller one, just because it takes up less space on the desk. I guess it depends how messy you are and how much clear desk-space you have?

was in on the original kickstarter, got both, have only opened and used the smaller one. No space for the XL, yet…. great piece of kit

I have the smaller one and rarely fill a sheet in a session or two unless I’m working on something big.  The larger one takes more desk space than I have and I just can’t seeing needing the extra space.  I did stock up on the papers and have no regrets there either.  Since I was in on the Kickstart mine came with a second sponge and after a couple of years of using the first one I can see the wisdom of having it.

It is a quality product that has become one of my go-to painting tools.

I have and use the normal one regularly without any issues. I would think that unless you are painting full-time the XL version is overkill.