neil 🍄
The majority of hosting providers have one click MediaWiki installs. (including https://www.webarchitects.co.uk/mediawiki )
That said I think you're right that MediaWiki isn't focused on ease of setup - customising, installing extensions, themes, etc is not as simple as e.g. Wordpress.
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