My main problems with touch pads in general is that they are not smooth enough (meaning that rubbing your fingers in them for a few hours gets unpleasant), they have clicky buttons that need to much force to activate (which strains the finger you use most to click), they are too small so things like drag and drop often require intermediate steps, they are not sensitive enough (so you often need to repeat gestures, particularly 2-finger scroll; tapping almost never works the first time).

Apple’s touch pads (at least the recent ones) have none of these problems and are as smooth, responsive and reliable as good smartphones. They are actually useable as a main input device, not only in a pinch.

You are not alone. I don't even consider buying any laptop other than a ThinkPad due to the lack of TrackPoint and being forced to use a touchpad if I don't have a mouse for some reason. I always make a mess with touchpads, including Mac and non-Mac ones.

(Not your comment's parent) Apple making touchpads bigger is why I stick to their 13" 2015 MacBook air! When I got a recent Pro for work, it was nearly unusable from the oversized, oversensitive trackpad. Yes, even after setting all the options that (I was assured) would make it stop picking up unintended presses. When typing, I'd unavoidably brush the trackpad and cause the cursor to move somewhere and click, redirecting my input.

Like your comment's parent, I used the trackpad because I prefer doing everything from the keyboard and so prefer the trackpaid for things that require a mouse-like interface.

I wonder if you’re suffering from past experiences of touch pads from the 1990s? I was a slow adopter for similar reasons.

Remind yourself that it works exactly like the screen of an iPhone or iPad, that’s when it clicked for me.

Absurdly bad, I'll admit. But after 15+ years of this, still no noticeable problems.