I've had sub(s) for many years now and highly recommend them.
Having said that, sometimes I've found it really difficult to integrate them to the room. I purchased a miniDSK UMIK-1 calibration microphone and the REW (Room EQ Wizard) software to help integrate the subs with the room and full-range speakers.
In our last house, my listening room had terrible bass acoustics, eventually I had to install 10 bass traps to tame the extraneous bass the room added to the music, and could have used more, but my wife was referring to that room as my "padded cell".
We moved to a new home and I had a customized listening room done as part of the build and I'm loving life in the new digs! This room has some sloping intersections of the walls & ceilings (a good thing in my case).
I have a pair of JL Audio F113V2's (otherwise known as "overkill") and one of the sub's amps died, and while the amp was being repaired by JL Audio I was not a happy camper, as I not only missed the little bit of bass augmentation, I mainly missed the "visceral" experience that the subs add to the music.