Yep. Any time I actually care about the value of a resistor (which is to say, for precision analog work, not power supplies or logic pull-ups or LEDs or ...), I'll pick a cheap thin-film part, even without doing analysis. This does several things for me:
1. I get a "pretty good" (i.e., >80% of best achievable performance for <<20% of the effort) resistor in my important location.
2. I get a separate BOM line item for that resistor, so it stands alone (or with similarly important parts) and is easy to single out to, say, ensure correct ordering.
3. The part will be physically distinctive, so I can also distinguish it on the circuit board. If I have space, I'll even go up one size, to make it impossible to swap out with the less critical parts. (It would work fine, if expensive, to put thin-films everywhere. The reverse is not true.) It also sends the "pay attention to this" signal to anyone down the line who only has the board to work from.
I favor Susumu thin-film resistors, as they're generally cost-competitive, very high quality, available in very tight tolerances if needed, and visually easily identifiable as Susumu parts (though the series is not identifiable). This means they have to be thin-film, because Susumu doesn't make anything else. RR and RG series are the go-to parts here. If cost is a concern, Yageo RT is also excellent, but not as noticeable on the board. For analog work, I'll go no smaller than 0603 (1608M) to ensure values are printed on the parts. This pays for itself after only one gain resistor mixup on the bench....
