"Downloading the Android SDK" is actually not a dozen steps of installs and updates. It involves downloading one archive, unpacking it, running the SDK manager

"Downloading the Android SDK" is actually not a dozen steps of installs and updates. It involves downloading one archive, unpacking it, running the SDK manager, checking checkboxes for target platforms you want to develop for and waiting for a couple of minutes, until it downloads. You can also set-up emulator devices for the different platforms. That's quite a short of complications you speak of.