As someone who rehoused a lot of pedals, I despise PCB mounted shit from that aspect. From a builders perspective, yes, do it. Just don't do the stomps. Those go bad faster than anything else in my experience and you'll having to remove all the guts versus just the switch later for repairs. It's not a huge deal but it is fucking annoying. lol.
PCB mounting just makes things look cleaner IIMO. The other advantage is that you don't have to do all sorts of off board wiring and go through 80 possibilities of why something isn't working. A huge disadvantage is drill templates. You better be sure that you can measure properly otherwise, it's a huge pain in the ass. You have only a tiny bit of forgiveness on board mounted shit (if any), where as off board stuff, you can do whatever you want. Holes don't line up quite right by a millimeter? Who cares.
So, I'd do all board mounted and SMD.
Hahaha. I don't know if you can SMD that circuit without making it sound like shit, but I'd try it.
Also mark me down as interested.