You can get pcbs made for peanuts and soldering through hole components requires hardly any coordination at all. People who have been soldering their whole life

You can get pcbs made for peanuts and soldering through hole components requires hardly any coordination at all. People who have been soldering their whole life find it easy to solder SMD because they have the coordination to do it and the temperature controlled station too. I can solder qfps and tssop no problem but it's still easier to solder a dip package, they can go in breadboards or perf board and you can bang together a circuit without temperature controlled stations or cad software