SMD kits are, in my opinion, pointles
That's nice, but I can't imagine I'm the only one who disagrees, and here's a few reasons...
Draw schema, design PCB, print, etch, and solder on components, idea to prototype in an afternoon, and it's not fragile mess of wires on a breadboard.
It's a good idea to prototype with the same form of parts that you will use in the end design, if you use THT to prototype and then use SMD when you make a PCB... you might have more unanticipated issues.
You can keep ridiculous quantities of SMD components in a small space, in two small pill organisers I have enough resistors to last me half a lifetime of tinkering.
If you want to you can use them on a breadboard simply by soldering legs on them (or to a 2 pin 2.54mm header).
The larger SMD components have their values printed on them, no need to futz with colour codes.
SMD components are generally a lot cheaper.
Lots of interesting stuff only comes in SMD.
You have to get used to SMD eventually.
I'm not saying that you shouldn't have any THT parts, of course you should have some, but SMD kits are certainly not as "pointless" as you think they are.