the reason its alot of steps is because windows 8 included the proper stuff for the desktop.ink but windows 10 totally removed this feature
yes it can be done as you said creating a new icon etc but its useless addon imho and not worth the time and effort when you can just hold win key and press D to get to desktop easy not to mention you want it as a live tile whitch would include even more scripting.
this is just an opinion,perhaps stardock will consider this.if they do great,but again i see no real purpose for it.
what did you do before live tiles and 8 when windows 7 existed?surely there was no live tile option,unless windows 8 was the first pc youve ever had,whitch i highly doubt