It is a lovely way to make very tasty bread if you are patient and have a lot of time on your hands. If both of those things are not true for you, then you will likely get frustrated and give up with it.
I have baked my own bread for the past 10 years and no longer buy any shop-bread at all, as ours is all home made. When we ran out of yeast a few weeks back, I made a sourdough starter so we could continue to bake our own bread. Even then, with it ready to go, I gave up with our sourdough starter just as it became usable as I found a bag of 'normal' yeast on Amazon, as baking sourdough just seemed to be so time consuming.
If you just bake the odd loaf, and have an interest in making a sourdough then go for it. If you want to feed your family every day with sourdough, it will take up a LOT of your time. Maybe I didn't get into the groove.