About 7yrs ago I was on a two man team sent to Laredo, TX to install a spiffy new Ka band dish antenna with all the trimmings, I think it was around 2.4m with a lot of support electronics. There were six LMR400 cables or 12 N connectors that had to be installed and swept with really good VSWR past 6GHz and I was issued the type connector with solder center pins. And I had no proper stripping tools and had to use the equivalent of box cutters to prep the cable.
If you've ever had to deal with connectors at or above 6GHz you know the center pin has to be put on within a few thousands of an inch of perfect including trimming the dielectric, otherwise the VSWR goes wonky real fast. This was in the middle of the summer outdoors with no shade and I must have spent a couple of hours putting on a dozen connectors and a couple of them didn't pass sweep testing and they had to be cut off and done over. Not fun.
The other end of the circuit was a similar dish in Chile and I made sure I had proper prep tools and lots of Times EZ type connectors. The exact same job I did in Lerado that took half the day was done in less than 30min in Chile and they all swept perfect. I'll never go back to LMR connectors where you solder the center pin. So you might save $5 each connector by not choosing EZ connectors but imagine the savings in labor, 30min for 12 connectors vs half a day at a staggering labor rate.
Here is the job I hated in Laredo. Lovely Laredo in the summer, can't think of too many places I would rather not be in.
Same basic setup in Chile, smaller dish in the center. Fun place, although this was northern Chile in the Atacama desert.
I concur with prcguy. I'm fortunate to have all this stuff at work, including the Times Microwave LMR cable termination kit. The prep tools make it really easy (almost child proof as indicated) to do a good termination. If you were careful, you can probably do just as good with a good sharp razor blade and a way to chamfer the end of the center conductor to properly slide into the captured center pin. I've done a ton of them and never had a failure, but all my usage is 800MHz and below.
As for 'child', I'm in my 50's and still haven't decided what I want to do when I grow up.