Sure, go to line stages with 6V6's or similar, a console gets hot, but it's only those stages doing it. My RCA BC-2B gets warm over time because of the three 6V6's, and there's a lot of airspace in there. The other tubes can be touched to remove from the sockets immediately after powering down. When my control room had 8 channels of tube limiters and line amps with sixteen 6V6's, they'd heat the room. These days I turn on many more preamp channels without power tubes and it's not noticeable.
The Neve VR that was close by is the hottest console I've ever been on, you could feel the heat rising 6 inches above the surface. My MOTU converters and my Dolby 740 run hotter than most of my tube gear.