the tooling nudges you towards this configuration and so it came to dominate.
couple years ago there was an issue related to the taproot push limit that broke half the lightning network. yes, the one that let the spam party begin, the flaw between the segwit witness section and the taproot witness push limit.
so, yeah, at least, it used to be the most common node backing LND. zap wallet also used neutrino, to connect to btcd for the SPV