Back in the 80s, high school and later electronics engineering in college, the only tools I own are a cutter, pliers, 30W soldering iron, a DIY power supply, and an analog multimeter that I assembled from a kit. I have some ferric chloride, dry transfer and permanent marker pen for making PCBs, and my very own 3/64" drill bit.
And using these primitive tools, I've built a lot of projects back then... phono preamps, line preamps, amplifiers, EQs, AM/FM radio, strobe lights, running lights, VU meters, some digital clock, color organ, "knight riders", etc. I didn't have a scope, signal gen, or SA, or other tools. A signal tracer and multimeter is pretty much it for troubleshooting.
Nowadays, I see people spending $400 for a power supply to get into this hobby! WHAT? Why don't you make your own power supply if you want to learn electronics? A PSU is a good first project.
Also, I'm just not into measurebation and more measurebation for the pleasure of it... I don't need 0.001% accuracy and 10 digital multimeters with 8 digit accuracy, +/-1ppb, to do some useful work.