It’s not dark magic like Tterev3 and his enamelled wire wizardry, but yeah I like using those wires, they take so little space that they can be comfortably long.
BTW Haukkeli Assembled two BST21-KRx , please check it out. He’s sort of my beta tester and I believe that was his first time assembling a PCB, demonstrating that it’s definitely doable to assemble them with just previous reflowing experience.