> enjoy some arcane technical artifacts

Except that I do not think that you can call executing "make" and using your native package manager an "arcane", I am sorry.

These are basic actions that are documented even from tutorials from the 90's. They are basic actions that are generally part of any first year study in computer sciences.

That is not 'gatekeeping', there is no gate to keep here. I name more that fight laziness and understand your tooling.