It's my thing.
I see a lot of these projects' developers and fans be like "it's not hard to just do it yourself" and be really dismissive of casual users. I don't know if it's always just that they can't understand things from their perspective or if they're secretly wanting to drive people to their Discord servers, but it's pretty disappointing to see regardless of the reason why.
I think in the case of most of the developers it's purely just a tunnel-vision thing where they're just wanting to focus on the one thing and I can get that. Hell, if I were to work on my own project like this and decomp something, I'd probably have two separate repositories, one for the game and one for a launcher, just to keep the codebases completely separate and organized.
It's the community that bugs me more when they say stuff like that and dismiss other people making tools. They see people come in all the time and ask questions or have problems with something, but just brush it off. They are the ones I feel are more likely to be just doing it to keep up community engagement.
I kind of get it for say a Linux environment since most Linux users are probably comfortable enough with it to be able to run all the necessary commands from terminal in which case the process is a cakewalk in most cases, but even that outlook could change in the coming years with the advent of the Steam Deck and its Arch Linux base...a base that's not even capable of building software by default.
