ha yeah that was definitely an exaggeration. I don't think many people need a complex environment, it's more about personal preference. If I can do a one-time setup that saves me time on all of my future projects, rather than take longer to complete each project, that overhead is well worth it to me.
This one just hits home with anytime I try to program on a different computer.
"Ok, I have 5 hours to program, let's do this" ... 4 hours later ... "Ok, all my sublime plugins and themes are installed, let's start coding!"