..except it's quite different though? Adding a hook for compilation in most decent editors is only a few lines of config, and many popular editors (GNU Emacs,

..except it's quite different though? Adding a hook for compilation in most decent editors is only a few lines of config, and many popular editors (GNU Emacs, vim, m$ vscode) nowadays have packages that have these hooks predefined, so it pretty much just comes down to installing a package, which I hope you don't think is beyond the capabilities of the average user. Alternatively there are editors like texworks which provide exactly this feature out of the box.