When I was in school, I used that kind of PCB SMD to DIP adapters a lot. They worked fine, OK, in most situations.
In other situations, like Op amps with more than tens of MHz GBW, or modern high-speed digital devices, they cause more problems than convenient.

Many technics were developed to solve that problems, like soldering a solid copper plate under that adapter, flying decoupling capacitors over the chip and so on

Chip sockets would perform even worse in those situations, and they are expensive too.
Now I'm almost done with that adapters since PCB manufacturing is so much cheaper and faster than the old days. As for simple prototype verification, you can buy or design some specialized circuit model boards, like the Arduino and the TI DIYAMP-EVM. Breadboarding with them are much better than with a universal SMD to DIP adapter.
https://www.ti.com/tool/DIYAMP-EVMAnd of course you can make some home-made PCB, the only problem is they requiring some chemicals or CNC machines.