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That's because games don't need "their own launcher" to apply updates like that. Ask anyone that's been playing on PC, patches were these self extracting files or "mini installers" that you just needed to point to the installed game's folder. Even vanilla World of Warcraft let people download the patches for offline install, it even included a text with all the changes applied.
People don't want the fiddling on of that. I just want to be able to install the patch and then it be there.
That's why lunches are a thing there's no other reason to have them.
You might enjoy the technical solution but 99% of people don't care. I never understand why people seem to think that the 1% of the most experienced people are the standard when they are anything but. Most gamers build their own PCs, they don't want to have to understand about file systems and formats and compiling. They just wanted to work and then they want to play their game.