Now you’re asking these “people running it from home, which likely means they really don’t know what they’re doing” as you called them, to have to download some 3rd party freeware from who knows where, install and configure it, just to get a basic GUI? This is making it easier you say?
On one hand, you don't need the GUI. On the other hand, the harder the better, because barely computer literate people shouldn't be running web servers from their homes in the first place. Very, very bad idea by Microsoft.