It depends on how high you like your bars. If your bars are currently about as low as you can get them a higher fork will drive you bonkers because it will raise your bars too high. If your bars are currently high you'd have plenty of room to lower them on a taller fork by flipping or using a lower angle stem. It's sort of nice to have extra BB clearance off road, but if your bars are even slightly too high your bike will be squirrelly on climbs, the front wheel will wander because you won't have adequate weight on the front tire. If you can get a little extra BB/pedal height clearance while also keeping your bars low enough for climbs then it might be a good thing. It isn't very complicated or worthy of hand wringing. It won't even change the BB height very much, maybe only a fraction of a centimeter. The handling characteristics of the bike depend on fore/aft balance and if you have the space to change that and aren't on either extreme of having a too large or too small frame you can tweak it to your liking without difficulty.
Last edited by Clem von Jones; 10-03-21 at 05:43 PM.