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I’d say it depends on the country and what you want to do there. In Thailand, I tended to stay in one city for 3-5 days and take day tours to the surrounding areas. I spent a week in Bangkok and a week in Pai.
Laos was also 3-5 days as it was so chill there; probably would have spent more time in each place but I used up 10 days in Luang Prabang as there was a week-long festival going on.
I spent 2-3 days in each place in Vietnam as I felt like there was soooo much I wanted to do and see.
And Cambodia I’ve been doing the same as Vietnam, but I’ve planned a big rest stop by the beaches (2 weeks, with a bit of island hopping)
Also bear in mind that my first day is mostly used up by the travel getting there, so a 2 night stay will typically be a long bus ride getting there, stay the night, one full day of sightseeing, and then travelling off the next day. Can be hard work after a long time.
I usually book 3 nights so that I have 2 full days, then decide if I want to extend my stay once I’m there. Unless there is something happening (eg. A festival or national holiday) that means a place is booking out everywhere, then I might book longer from the beginning. I don’t like moving around any quicker than that (unless just transiting) because it gets exhausting pretty quickly. I did a tour once that gave us two nights at most in a place, which meant we were stuck on a bus every other day for at least 5 hours, sometimes 8. Felt like I spent more time seeing the bus than the country I was in...
We would mainly do every 3 nights depending on where we were. Rather get somewhere and decide to extend instead of booking a big chunk and regretting it.
Anywhere between 3-7days. For us it just depends on the things to do/see too. Or sometimes we just like to have a couple of reset days of complete rest! We’ve been on the go since Feb this year.