Hmm ya but for tough issues like this I think step #1 for troubleshooting would be to try the installer
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The problem is these programs keep updating versions like visual studio and things simply stop working because you can't get the exact versions referenced in the guide. If you know what your doing and have it working the old way by all means keep doing it but I'm not sure anyone is trying to keep the instructions up to date and functional when they could just refer someone to the installer.
This is just my opinion from what I've seen I'm not a dev and don't have any inside info and am probably wrong lol.