Microsoft makes life easier... they just forgot they did

So I've finally gotten around to making Office 2007 deploy able across the network instead of having to drag myself to each happy computer and do it by hand.  So I take my USB drive with the Office files and head off to the MS site.  What's this I see?  We've gone back to the stone age and I have to whip out notepad to edit the config XML file?  Well.... that seems dumb.  But... okay.

Source:  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179195.aspx

This seems very backwards to me.  Why would we go through all the pain of making an MSI installer package just to be un-done by a XML file we have to edit by hand?  I bemoan, cry, and begrudgingly take a few days off to figure out what MS is doing and to burn some extra vacation time.

It doesn't make sense to me.. it just won't work.  The package keeps failing and doesn't give a report on why.  Everything seems clunky and I can't keep investing time into a project I can't gain momentum on.  Then Google comes and saves me.

Apparently buried deep inside of Office 2007 is the "Office Customization Tool"!  This tool provides a wonderful GUI in which everything is asked what I want, where I put everything, and what the company name is.  You do this, save the file, drop it into a folder named "Patches" and you're done.  The MSI looks at that folder to see if it needs any extra data before doing a GPO install and you're rocking and rolling.

So my question is... WHY NOT JUST TELL US TO USE THE OCT IN THE FIRST PLACE!!??!?!  I don't need to grind up my own wheat to know that I like bread.  I don't need to play in a stupid XML file in notepad to know I want an easy GUI to do it for me.