Thinking of them as waves helps your intuition for entry-level QM phenomena like the dual-slit experiment and other lab-scale interferometry experiments. Unfor

Thinking of them as waves helps your intuition for entry-level QM phenomena like the dual-slit experiment and other lab-scale interferometry experiments. Unfortunately, I would say it doesn't help (and could actually block you) when you want to build intuition around QFT and high-energy processes. In your mind, you would still then think of a photon as a wave running around interacting with electronwaves that then oscillate and produce new photon waves.. and you'd think for example that "hey, I can just solve the wave equation and I solve the experiment". While it's really so much more messy, as you'd note when you start considering the number of degrees of freedom involved required in your simulation to approximate reality. It's not classically interacting waves timestepped forward in time, it just looks like that in the most trivial situations.