If you do a lot of this stuff, definitely. But pro level work is mostly SMD, and a lot of hobbyists mostly do digital work with modules , there's usually few en

If you do a lot of this stuff, definitely. But pro level work is mostly SMD, and a lot of hobbyists mostly do digital work with modules , there's usually few enough discrete parts that one can just use the multimeter. If you're into the super cool discrete analog stuff than learning it for real makes sense though!