Vero board has huge tracks of even width (say 80 mils) which is what u want if working with high current. For me, this is more the exception than the norm; i will deal with high current as needed.
I use toner transfer to make my veroboard with say ~25 mil traces connecting 0.1" spaced 70x70 mil pads. This gives thermal insulation between pads for easier/neater soldering. And it makes the tracks easier to cut, even after the fact of crowding it with joints. I can still cut a track with a chisel without having to remove or cut through a 80 mil wide bead of solder. This toner transfer board works for me since i dont use the holes, anyhow. Just once every 3 or 4 years when I ran out or lost my last bit, I will fire up another board. Half pitch veroboard is often handy for me for little bits of circuitry, as well. Say 38x38 mil square pads at 0.05" pitch connected with 20 mil traces.
There was a short while where I tried making doublesided veroboard. The tracks on the bottom ran perpendicular to the tracks on top. I used it primarily on one side, and drilled holes wherever I wanted to make a jumper, using vias. This works fine, if you actually want to make a very compact circuit, but for me it is more trouble than it's worth. Single-sided is way more handy just because I'm often using the stuff to fix mistakes (or make modifications) to another circuit board. And having plain and flat bottom to glue over another pcb is usually going to save me more time and effort. And flipping the board and having "hidden" jumpers there is just adding to the mental strain and increasing the difficulty of debugging. I rather keep it all on top in plain view. Jumper wires add up, but it's easy enough to keep them out of harms way when you're using 30AWG kynar, and they are easy enough to follow with magnification.