I do not think much has changed for me when comparing digital camera formats to film camera formats. In the past when I shot film, I used a 35mm + prime/zoom for walk-around grab shots. If I was doing professional portrait work, it was Hasselblad on tripod, and if the client's needs were 4x5" chromes, it was a monorail + tripod. Different techniques for different tools is how I always saw it. Kind of like driving an automatic and then driving a stick-shift.
Today with my digital tools, it is about the same with the exception of a MF replacing my 4x5". I do however make use of my D700 more than I ever did with my F3, and this puts it also on top of a tripod most of the time for landscape shots. I guess for me, things have gotten easier and that was one welcomed reason I made the switch to MF digital. When I learned my initial MF technique, it began with the box sitting on top of a tripod and I have shot like that ever since.
Maybe this is more about technique in ways. No matter how lightweight the gear is, when I want to design my shot, I need to have it all buttoned down on the tripod so I can leave the gear-gymnastics and give my vision the freedom to develop. I do use a Canon G9 and the thought of putting that on a tripod would make me wonder why I purchased it in the first place.
Darr