> It's just banging your head spamming incantations found through Google until something finally works.

Yea, all the while hoping you don't mess up something even worse!

I feel like Apple has made some strides in this area - having Xcode manage a bunch of profiles + key signing and whatever else it does when I click "Yes, make it easier for me". But it also randomly forgets settings and breaks etc. which is fun to re-troubleshoot.