Yes, but we all have a soldering iron available.
Just showing what is possible and sharing options and techniques.
With hot air, you ‘do’ have to protect surrounding components with Kapton tape as hot air is ‘not’ as targeted as an iron.
However, hot air has its place.
Note:
If you ever tried to remove an electrolytic SMD capacitor with a hot air wand, that capacitor can explode.
In which case you can use the aluminum strip method.
Flux, heat one lead and tilt the capacitor slipping the ‘strip’ under that lead; cool and remove the strip.
Heat the other lead pulling off the capacitor.
EDIT
See post #776
