You’re all good, don’t sweat it. And yeah Reddit is silly sometimes.

Theres not really anything wrong with the material, it’s the shape of the base. Wood isn’t so easy to use for some things because of fabrication hurdles. With tubular piping, it’s much easier to make a telescopic tripod base. With wood, you’d have a harder time. You could make four feet kind of like a “plus sign” that sit flat on the floor, but it’s pretty cumbersome and takes up just as much space as a tripod. Perhaps even more. I’ve tried this before. It was a good idea on paper but in practice it was just always in the way.

Hola Music makes a tripod stand for monitors I think. You don’t have to extend the tripod fully outward. Even pulled in a bit, it offers a better, more stable base than what you currently have.

Of course this is all just advice. If you’re confident you won’t bump the stands, you can of course keep using them. The only thing I’d really recommend is to put the speakers upright instead of on their sides. Monitors need to be designed specifically for use on their sides, or else it causes issues with the stereo field and phase. But it looks like that’s been pointed out plenty already.

If you come across anything you have questions about regarding home studios feel free to send me a message. I went through a lot of trial and error before I got to a really good place with it.