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I'm erring towards ceiling speakers just now - I'm about to rip the floors up a bit above the kitchen / living area, so the disruption is happening anyway.
As a fallback, the advantage of the @Sam_w method is that the amp is fairly easy to hide, speaker cables easier to chase, and satellite speakers are less intrusive than most powered speakers.
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I've gone from internally amped monitor speakers with lots of ChromeCast Audios... to just having 1 stereo setup in the front room and then using Google Home Hub or Google Minis throughout that house.
They are far lower power in standby, and I noticed that I was either in the living room listening to music or really all I wanted was background music as I pottered around.
So I've opted for synchronised background music across the whole home which is adequate, and then really good speakers on the ChromeCast Audio in the living room.
It feels far more discreet as a system as the standalone monitors were quite visible everywhere.