Scale footprint pad?

I have not yet, but you’re absolutely right, I have to allocate some time to practice better workflows. My muscle memory is impaired quite a bit by having professionally inhabited an Autodesk world for well over two decades (first, in the AutoCAD ecosystem, and then in the Revit, so all of it in AEC). This is why I also, for instance, use Fusion for all my 3D printing design needs. I feel there are a lot of efficiencies that would be beneficial for the Kicad workspace, if borrowed from that world.