"Perhaps there are people out there that really hate following step-by-step instructions."

Yep, they're called "users". They aren't programmers and don't want to be. They just want something to work. I'm surprised a programmer would rather waste time on trivial tasks than to just click a few buttons.

"And how many times do you do that in a lifetime?"

If you are someone who is trying to build a real website and trying different things, you do it a lot.

"...I still don't think I've spent even a fraction of the time I've spent dealing with other, considerably more irritating issues in software."

It really depends on exactly what you're doing, but since programming is your profession, of course you will deal with a lot of other issues. We're just trying to save people time and money.

I was just suggesting that "users", even those who aren't particularly technically-inclined, are more than capable of following step-by-step instructions, given that the only requirement is generally knowing how to get things onto a web server, how to copy-and-paste, and how to edit a file.

But I wish you the best of luck if your users are happy. Perhaps I'm just getting cynical :)