As we get older responsibilities make us go to the beach less, which means often when we DO finally get to the beach it's onshore and kuk.....To grovel in 1-2ft slop on a boogie is actually friggin lame-ass, to grovel in slop on a longboard is actually a whole lot of fun. I have found with the boogie one reaches a point where you realise this is as good as you're gonna get and unless you rip it can get hellish boring doing the same old cutties and hand-drag spins....although I did bust a sweet air last week in good waves.
With standup you can at least get some stoke on, just doing a plain-old bottom turn on a rubbish wave. I'll never give up the sponge, ever, but if the waves are good for boogie, I boogie, if the waves are below average, I surf.
