Bath or Shower - if you can have only one, what's it to be?

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My sister just had her bathroom 'done' and has taken out the bathtub and replaced it with a shower cubicle. She has a small old two bedroom house with just the one bathroom which might well have been built as a three bedroom in the days before indoor bathrooms. The family are quite 'split' about whether replacing the bath with a shower was the right thing to do and I wondered what other people think. I'm sure a lot depends on where you live and how the weather is. Most people in hotter countries would probably favour a shower. Those in colder ones may well prefer a good hot soak in the tub. Those in countries where water is scarce may well be shouting 'shower' at their screens whist those in countries where it never stops raining may favour a bathtub. My parents are pro-shower for themselves, being of an age where getting in and out of a tub is a challenge. Even so, they think she should have kept the bath on the grounds that nobody with mobility issues would ever want to buy my sister's house with its narrow, steep staircase. I love few things more than a long soak in the bath and my position is that taking out the bathtub means she'll never be able to sell to a family with small children. My parents say only an idiot with small kids would buy my sister's house because of the stairs (again). My husband prefers a shower and thinks they did the right thing. So I have two questions. What would you do and do you think my sister did the right thing? (Please let me know where you live)