[tesseract]

I'm pretty sure more than 1% of electrical engineers have worked with SMD - they're tough to avoid these days, unless you are strictly doing microelectronics, or a power engineer bolting things together with bus bars.

[mkl]

We are not all electrical engineers.

[CamperBob2]

You won't even be a hobbyist for much longer, unless you make your peace with SMD.

Relax. It's fun. Assimilate.