Stump shrinker

Hey yall, so I’ve been an amputee for almost a year now and have completely stopped wearing my stump shrinker for the past 8ish months (about a month after getting my first prosthetic) but have been told conflicting info about stump shrinkers. Some people say you have to wear it if ur not wearing ur prosthetic and some people say they don’t wear it but occasionally. Which one is right? Or is it person to person? Like I can have my stump in a downward position for hours and then put the same amount of socks on and not be out of the socket, would it be fine for me to continue to not wear it or is there some underlying reason to why people wear them?