TomD
Plywood tends to be used expediently in furniture, with the exception being stuff like the contract furniture business. I'm typing in front of a Step Tansu I built in Plywood. Part of the reasoning there, and it has proved correct, is that TV units do not remain in style long enough to warrant good materials. I never finished it either, I finished all the plywood stuff, but did not add the sliding doors because I couldn't bring myself to throw away good solid wood doors on this project.

Plywood is easily worked with hand tools. I have often dovetailed it, either for aesthetic reasons, or for practical projects where dovetails are a really cheap way to hold large panels together. I like to use planes when fairing curves on plywood, because you can feel bumps in the rate of change, and the plane will quickly straighten them out. I also cut scarph joints with planes. Etc...

Plywood that gets dissed is often the 0/90 stuff. The 0/0 stuff is very high quality you find it in high load bearing projects like seating. Quality isn't so much the issue really, it s more a mater of personality. 0/0 is more like solid wood.

Technically it is an awesome material. I was looking in a yachting magazine, current issue of Sail. There is a small trimaran reviewed in there, nominally 23 feet, but actually a little shorter. As such it is shorter an narrower than mine, and only a bit lighter. 38 thousand dollars, with about 6 K in better rig. I think with equal sails, my boat would beat it, and it cost 3500 in materials. Pretty much all vac bagged doorskins. Wood remains a fabulous structural material. Most of the panel material in the video is 1/4" thick, or 3/16". Imagine, the sofa is made of 1/4"plywood.