It's not really meant to be an alternative, though given the high number of dependencies the tool requires, I elected to package them up into one zip file to avoid users having to go to 5 different tool pages for all the dependencies (which seemed likely to bring its own set of issues).
I do appreciate the suggestion though; in particular, the tutorials weren't made at time of release so that is why they aren't linked at the moment. I'll note that for a future update!