I've been using 212s since they came out. Pain to install. Not overclocking on this build and AMD's stock cooler is halfway decent, so I just ran with that this time.
Current PC case is a Meshify 2. Don't need larger since I usually run a micro ATX board these days. Don't put much in other than a couple of hard drives, so I don't need nine million SATA ports.
Never have used water cooling. It's gotten better in terms of reliability, but a good friend of mine had his water cooler die about fifteen years ago when he was in college and was literally rotating freeze pops in and out of his case and freezer to cool the thing. The overheat alert in the BIOS would start beeping, and he would go change them out.