Agreed. Fortunately CLIs have been making a big comeback lately. If the devs would just truly embrace the Azure Way (no more AWS!), we could have an API and CLI where you define your flight configuration in YAML and still get to wade through countless extremely well documented parameters for each command. Bonus points for supporting it on the Xbox version.
Maybe toss in an ASCII renderer too, for the folks whose GPUs melted down during the 90GB download+unpacking marathon, and also to be extra prepared for the next generation console’s RROD equivalent. Asobo could totally one-up this crazy dude: http://asciicker.com/