Sometimes at microstakes in specific games - very loose passive pre-flop (lots of limping little raising) with a couple of donks who like to play big pots it's ok to limp or min raise low pp utg.

Why because they're slightly unprofitable to play oop as the pfr with 1/2 callers who don't fold to cbet often enough as you noticed
but with 4/5 people seeing a flop in a limped pot they become quite playable.

But if there's even 1 semi decent player with position on you then don't limp. You can always raise them with a lower frequency if you find them slightly unprofitable in the games you play.