[theamk]

The alternative is not “install wizard”, it is either “here is a deb file with no post* scripts” or “here is a tar.gz, extract it anywhere and add symlink”

Both of those are vastly safer, because they do not require root privileges, and guarantee to uninstall cleanly.

[tsukikage]

This. Simply the decision to eschew standard package management already says unpleasant things about their approach to integrating with my environment, or in whatever it is the installation does being reversible using standard tools. "Install wizards" do indeed have exactly the same issue, which is why those are also terrible.