Nope, that would be my advice. It's not as hard or as demanding as you think, even a naive design, with just a modicum of attention to ground loops and impedance matching, plus the advantages of modern layout tools, 4+ layer stackups, trace clearances, and high-performance integrated transceivers, will probably work fine.

Your first designs may or may not pass a radiated emissions test, and it may or may not work reliably if you want it to fly through the Van Allen belts or in an industrial panel full of VFDs, and you might want to aim for last year's implementation rather than the bleeding edge. While it can be made complicated if you want to truly and thoroughly understand it, just following basic rules of thumb can go a long, long way.