"You should ideally be able to take your hard drive out, put in a new one, install a fresh OS, run 1 script, and be completely up and running in less than an hour."

this is great if you can pull it off but if you have a lot of disjointed systems plus maybe custom hardware it gets really hard to automate the process. In general I agree though. I also have learned to just live with the defaults of my IDE(s) instead of setting them up to my taste every time.