It seems to be recommended on all the care sheets, but it also seems a lot of breeders, or at least people who simply keep a lot of snakes in racks, only have a small dish for drinking water. If my snake has no shedding issues and I don't see any signs of mites, is there any reason to bother with a large soaking dish?

The reason I ask is because I swapped a smaller dish back into the cage after my snake seemed to stress a bit about finding a quick way around the larger one. He would always decide to slither right over it and fall in somewhat, and didn't seem to happy about taking the dip. Wasn't too deep, either. Rather than place it better, I decided to remove it altogether, for now at least.