Yeah, for vinyl it’s kind of essential, but for almost any track the low-end will sound more “solid” if it’s centred and mono. The lower reaches of human hearing have frequencies that can really play up and sound very different in different scenarios that we play back music.
If you’re not using a specific plug-in, in most DAWs its easy to set up audio going to three destinations: low frequencies / left mids and highs / right mids and highs. In Ableton I do this with an effect rack, just on the one channel.