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"But if you don't have access to these tools you can use hand tools instead."
Don't usually comment on YT but I did get into a discussion/whinge underneath a "$100 workbench". My main gripe was that at that price point it's targeting amateurs and there were a couple of design elements that a) would only have been feasible without expensive machine tools if you had a vast amount of experience, and b) could have been done differently so that someone without those tools could have done it. But then it would have been more like $114 and no one wants to watch that.
hugo7-
If you want the other extreme, I have the 1921 edition of 'Things to Make' by Archibald Williams.
I looked at his design then altered the sizes to use the builders off-cuts I rescued from being burned, and made a temporary bench in the new garage. Twenty two years later I haven't yet made the 'proper' one. It also appears to be part of Project Gutenberg...
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14664
The bench is the second design, the first being a sawing trestle, presumably to convert locally felled timber into usable boards.
MrE
I'm a hug fan of build-it-yourself youtube tutorials, where they make things like router tables, table saw benches, planers & jointers.
Obviating the fact that they have tens of thousands of pounds worth of specialised heavy machinery already.