This was pretty much my thoughts too. This use case is quite a bit outside of the realm of what Wordpress is intended to be used for. Local deployments are only

This was pretty much my thoughts too. This use case is quite a bit outside of the realm of what Wordpress is intended to be used for. Local deployments are only really intended to be for people who are serious about administrating their own web server or developing plugins for Wordpress, so it's assumed that you already have the knowledge to set up a web server with PHP and MySQL. The people who want a "writing first" experience _with Wordpress specifically_ have many paid hosting providers to choose from, but that would defeat the purpose of the article. Making a one-click installation process would also take a significant amount of dev resources to handle all the different platforms and require expertise that isn't required for the main product, given that it is a PHP project which is almost entirely cross platform by default.