I was surprised to find that you can, indeed, get 47 uF 35 volt MLCC surface mount caps, but they'll set you back about 10x the cost of the same capacitance in a surface mount electrolytic. In some cases, it might be worth it.
Most of the repairs I do are to older test equipment and radios, from WWII to the end of the 20th century. Some of the new surface mount stuff is just too small for us to work with. 6TTSOP is a chip 2 by 1.25 mm, and it's really hard to tack leads onto it to patch it into an existing circuit. (We needed 20+ dB of gain at 2 Ghz to replace an obsolete part, we ended up ordering a MAR-6+ instead, at least it's big enough to solder)
You should probably stock up on breakout boards in your most frequently used chip form factors. They're usually fairly cheap and can save you most of the pain of avoiding shorting pins on floating chips.
Most of the repairs I do are to older test equipment and radios, from WWII to the end of the 20th century. Some of the new surface mount stuff is just too small for us to work with. 6TTSOP is a chip 2 by 1.25 mm, and it's really hard to tack leads onto it to patch it into an existing circuit. (We needed 20+ dB of gain at 2 Ghz to replace an obsolete part, we ended up ordering a MAR-6+ instead, at least it's big enough to solder)