I also don't really care about maximizing the bass , as I think I use bass mainly to support a groove or a melody , not especially for impact ( Drums and guitars are my infantry & artillery troops ) .
I guess it's just like cooking , I fount my own approach and solutions that work for me and make my style personal. That don't necessarily means everybody will like my french cuisine
French cuisine? Just add more butter, mate.
It's not about maximising the bass; it's maximising the headroom (available energy) for all the other instruments.
What I'm suggesting is that your other mix elements will have a tiny-bit more room to breathe.
Here's another (but the same) way of looking at it:
If your bass level is 2dB higher in the left channel than it is on the right, you have 2dB less headroom to play with when adding other instruments to the left side of the mix.
If you spread the bass evenly, you now have 1dB more headroom in the left channel and 1dB less on the right, but anything you add to any positions that involve the left speaker, even only a little, will have more room to occupy / breathe than they did before. More room to play with. More freedom.
At 11 o'clock, as I suggested earlier, it's not a major issue IMHO, but the principle is sound(!), and the fact that bass frequencies are difficult for the brain to locate in space (panning... as well as pitch) means that nobody's really gonna hear the difference between 11 and 12 o'clock except you, 'cause you're mixing.