Can someone help explain Inventor workflow from the POV of a Fusion user?

I'm trying to pick up Inventor and struggling a bit with the design philosophy coming from Fusion.

I am very used to mostly working within one file and creating multiple components in situ and using them to reference each other for dimensions, go back and forth in the timeline and make things fit, etc. I do sometimes create and insert external components, though I rarely use "edit in place".

It seems the inventor philosophy is more "design individual parts and then integrate in an assembly file", which makes sense if you know what every part should be ahead of time, but for me there is usually a lot of back and forth where I adjust the parts relative to each other before things are right. How does this normally work in the Inventor context?

I am aware that there is an edit in place function in Inventor too, so is it kosher to make a bunch of empty parts, toss together in an assembly and then edit in place? Or what are your common workflows?