Re: Its the updates
" ... Imagine a new user gets told he has to run some command line to point at a different repository? ... "
Can they use a search engine like Google?
Can they fallow instructions?
Can they "copy/paste"?
Then they can use the command line. WITHOUT ever knowing what they are doing. Or even why.
The last several times that I needed to install anything from the CLI it literally was that easy.
Yes, yes, YMMV. But it also applies to life in general.