Surface mounted chips are used by hobbyists all over the world... They aren't much more complicated to use than DIP chips and are much easier to find now a days.
PS, why would someone create a PCB for a 14-pin dip chip to house the chip, an ISP header, and breadboard pins??? It is perfectly easy to breadboard a dip chip and use a ISP header on a breadboard...
PPS, Hobbyists don't usually worry about the physical size of the boards they are using...