Yes, indeed, I do believe it's both feasible and true, but let's keep the discourse in the context of desktop usage and desktop users: could you really advice a

Yes, indeed, I do believe it's both feasible and true, but let's keep the discourse in the context of desktop usage and desktop users: could you really advice a regular user to go through all those steps? That's the point. In windows 99 times out of 100 you can just run the binary.