The challenge with telling non-dev folks to “just build it themselves” is that it’s like an electrician telling me to “just upgrade my 60amp service to 100amp service myself”. I don’t even know where to start with that sort of thing. It probably feels pretty to clear to them, but that kind of clarity comes with experience (and often relevant employment).

That said, to the person who wants everything awesome on GitHub to be “compiled” - when it comes to things that technically could be - I guarantee you that much of it is tools and apps that that the creator doesn’t want to be used by folks who don’t know what they are doing. Either it’s not production ready enough, it’s an “easy to shoot yourself in the foot” kind of tool, or they don’t want tons of non-dev related questions about it. GitHub is a collaborative development, version control, and deployment platform (which certainly includes some folks hosting their production ready executables there). If you want to be able to use what folks produce at that “level”, you’re going to have to invest in becoming a little, well, nerdy. Alternatively, there is literally the rest of the internet to busy oneself with.