A line array is not automatically the better loudspeaker. It is a different coverage tool, and it earns its place only in rooms with the depth to use it.
Throw
If the furthest listener sits under about twelve metres from the stage, a well-placed point-source cabinet will usually deliver more even coverage than a short array, an array needs enough boxes to form a coherent wavefront, and a two-box hang rarely does.
The room
Reverberant halls with hard surfaces reward the tighter vertical control of an array, because energy that never reaches the ceiling never comes back as reflection. In a carpeted, well-treated conference space that control matters far less.
Sightlines and rigging
An array only works where it can fly. If the structure cannot take the point load, the honest answer is a ground-stacked point-source system designed properly, not an array compromised into place.
