No, it's not "just you." In its heyday Heathkit sold high quality, eminently affordable test and consumer audio/video equipment, much of which, I bet, is still in existence and still being used--like my IT-12 signal tracer and IP-18 regulated power supply.
In 1956 I traveled to Benton Harbor, MI, and picked up a Heathkit my father had ordered. I forget the model number but it was a big multispeaker cabinet (birch), designed for use in the early days of mono high fidelity. He and I assembled it and it worked the first time we tried it. Dad finished the cabinet with another then-new product, Deft brushable lacquer. Later (about 1961) he used the speaker system and another Heath speaker unit he himself assembled with his proudly acquired Fisher stereo tuner.