The current situation isn't some kind of gatekeeping move to keep n00bs out. There has been an installer for years in the past, but it wasn't maintained anymore

The current situation isn't some kind of gatekeeping move to keep n00bs out. There has been an installer for years in the past, but it wasn't maintained anymore; keeping the distribution with some wiki pages to help people was certainly better than to completely stop any installation until an alternative was found.