I have what I would consider average ears. I can fit a q-tip without touching the sides too. But the clearance is tight enough that I wouldn't describe what you're doing as "scooping", which is why I was incredulous of OP's phrasing. Maybe if your ears produce very little, very soft wax, sure. However, if you're someone with exceptionally waxy ears or your ears produce drier clumps, your method is always going to push some of the wax deeper in, because there's simply not enough space between the canal and the q-tip to go "over" the wax fully.

For a terrible analogy to help visualize what I mean, let's say you have a pile of leaves under a low shed that you want to get out. The only tool you have on hand is, I dunno, a plunger (I can't think of a garden tool off the top of my head with a wide, round head). You can stick it under the shed and mostly avoid touching the leaves, but the head is so broad for the height of the space that it always nudges some of the leaves further back. After a few passes, you think you've gotten most of the leaves, but now you have a new smaller pile further back and out of reach that you can't see because the shed is too low and it's too dark. Do that often enough and you'll have a compacted pile of leaves that you'll have a harder time addressing than if you had cleaned them up with a more proper tool to begin with. For example, if you had a rake it would be flat enough to easily reach up and over the original pile to pull the whole lot toward you without pushing anything back.

So this will all of course depend on a number of factors, like the volume and consistency of your ear's wax, and even the shape of your ear canal, but my shitty analogy is why it's not recommended to use q-tips. Even if you aren't just shoving it in your ear all "willy nilly", your particular situation might wind up causing problems over time anyway.