It's still not fun, but I'd put it on par with Altium Designer: + at least I don't have to generate my own bog-standard 0402, 0603 resistor/capacitor footprint

It's still not fun, but I'd put it on par with Altium Designer: + at least I don't have to generate my own bog-standard 0402, 0603 resistor/capacitor footprints, + a lot of the standard IPC-something footprints are included in kicad standard library (e.g. SOT23, SOP8, etc) + you can easily copy an existing transistor symbol, assign it a particular footprint you've verified and save to your library). - Altium has a lot more built-in wizards for symbol and footprint generation. There are some online kicad symbol library generators and a few built-in footprint wizards, but I believe AD has more. The Altium online component library probably does provide a larger selection, but I personally don't really trust it to be around forever. I'm also not sure if you don't need an active altium subscription (5000-8000USD/yr/seat) to have access to it.