I was a die hard solder connector guy for a long long time.
Bought high quality Amphenol crimper and connectors years ago, and never looked back.
Couldn’t tell you today’s prices, but you can have my crimp tool and my quality connectors after you pry them from my cold dead hands. Haha.
It only hurts once.
Agreed with the above comment that you need a number of cables to make to cover the startup costs, but nowadays I make myself a few cables a year, and still love that I can just buy high quality bulk cable on a spool, run it, go to each end, even if the end is on a roof, dress it all in, and cut it to exact length, and put any connector on the end that I like.
I guess it was sometime around the late-1990s when friends in the cellular tower business told me nobody did anything at those frequencies but crimp connectors anymore and the key was going name brand and high quality ones, and zero problems, when I decided it was time.