I loathe SID! As soon as I started playing with FMQ I began to enjoy the quilting part much more. I took a couple of baby panels I had and sandwiched them up to practice on, and found out it was so much less intimidating that I had thought, and much more forgiving than SID.
I still have trouble with eyelashing or wonky tension here and there - but I am learning, and get braver with each project.
My mother used to SID all her quilts, but the last top she made was a king so she had it long armed... she will never quilt her own top again.