Right, it's a case of the whole is more than the sum of its parts. The philosophy of making things easy for beginners by automating things like setting up toolchains and managing libraries is a major feature, plus the Arduino libraries and hardware of course. I'm not trying to downplay what it does, just point out that the tools to do what OP wanted have been there the whole time.

Please keep up the good work, I've learned a ton from Arduino!