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Front side light bulbs are surprisingly awkward on my 120 series Landcruiser, i've heard of people removing the front bumper to access, but it's easier to nip one of the twin batteries off at a time (wired in parallel so no worries so long as you insulate the leads), obviously i fitted good quality long life bulbs.
Daughters Civic gave me a massive headache, one of the rear bulbs was blown and when i attempted to remove the rather horrid capless thing it somehow ended up inside the light unit, luckily daughter with her nimble fingers managed to extract it without me having to trun the car upside down.
I've avoided modern cars generally and european in particular for many years so haven't had too many problems personally, some lorry designs which were previously really easy for bulb changes have got worse in latest designs, headlight bulbs either needing child size fingers to reach through a tiny gap behind the bumper (previously you could reach down from under the front grill when raised), and weird sprung fittings where the previous twist and lock bulb clamps/holders never gave a moment's trouble no matter how cold it was, fortunately my current MAN is reassuringly old school in many ways bulbs fittings included, it almost never blows bulbs in the front light units anyway but when they do happen it's easy, 2 screw bolts and the cover panel unclips another 3 screw bolts and the whole light unit swings out on a hinge.
Hundreds of modern cars and vans running round with numerous lights out recently, no doubt the difficulty of changing something as simple as a bulb is part of the problem.
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