Is there really no way to detect collision with solids?

Every thread that I've found that revolves around detecting collisions with any solid has suggested to use families, but that's not viable when there's a lot of complexity in terms of how solids are used.

Is there no way to detect when an object is overlapping any solid, regardless of object type and without using families?

How come families are not not viable ? Maybe there is a good way if we get some knowledge about your use case.

A family called solid with the solid behavior would be my go to solution, but I understand that you don't want that.