That's how my mother always made chicken and dumplings, and for me the joy was breaking into the dumpling with a spoon and experiencing the different textures (the fluffiness of the center of the dumpling, the slightly gummy outside). There's something so enjoyable about having a big dumpling to break open vs. a handful of tiny dumplings.

My husband grew up with the tiny dumplings, and he was incredibly perplexed when I made chicken and dumplings and it turned out looking a big like the one in the gif rather than what he knows