That's rather the point though - if you're going to criticise a platform or an OS for what it can or cannot do you need to be a lot more knowledgeable about your subject matter.
This is probably the easiest way to set up an install stick:
http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-install-windows-7vista-from-usb-drive-detailed-100-working-guide/
Once you've done that it's simple to install from and is no different from the prep you have to do to reinstall a Mac from a non-optical solution.
I agree with some of the stuff you say in your post but there are too many errors in it for it to hang together.
Phew! 9 steps in all!
So, tell me again, four years later, how my stuff was so full of errors? Ok, those comments about floppies were a tad misguided, but that guide you shared does not seem easy at all, sorry to tell you (I could do it all the same and, in fact, I've done much harder stuff on OS X like creating customized and self-cleaning/resetting kiosk-like guest accounts – and boy, did those involve fidgeting with hidden settings in Terminal and utilities like Deeper –, but for simpler stuff like maintenance I'd rather not have to spend that much time). Disk Utility has *always* been much easier to use than that (and has always been exclusively GUI-based, at that…).
I'll give you this: Apple is now tightening the whole DIY recovery scene by deliberately making it harder (nigh impossible, even) for you to downgrade OS X versions (yes, I could downgrade from Mountain Lion to Lion, or even to Snow Leopard if I were so inclined, but that would actually require a convoluted process involving booting from an external volume with a full, working OS X Snow Leopard installation (not just an installer but the whole shebang) and nuking the whole internal volume to the ground in that older version of Disk Utility so I could remove those pesky hidden recovery partitions that actively keep you from downgrading), and by not making it easy for you to create bootable OS X installers (it can, at least, be done, through a series of steps not unlike those you mentioned for Windows:
http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/08/make-a-bootable-mac-os-x-10-7-lion-installer-from-a-usb-flash-drive/ – including inputting some stuff into the command-line in the case of Mountain Lion), so let's call it a draw as far as OS *downgrades* and DIY recovery are concerned… Oh, wait, on second thought, scratch that last part, as “there's an app for that”™:
http://liondiskmaker.com 
As for the rest, please tell me how well that Registry ordeal is (still) working for PC users (and no, Win8 Apps don't really count, at least not if you're a professional relying on legacy software).
Oh, may I add that, starting a few months before my last post, I actually managed two Mac rooms at my Faculty for two years straight and personally serviced dozens, if not hundreds of Macs, and still do as a freelancer? I still stand by my words: Macs are dead simple to maintain (recovery partition shenanigans notwithstanding), whereas Windows PCs… not so much (trust me, I had to deal with a few of those, too, and they weren't more difficult to handle for any lack of familiarity whatsoever; I started out by using PCs and, judging from the date of that post, I was using a Toshiba laptop at home back then, after my old iMac G5 went kaputt and before I got the Rev. A 27'' iMac I'm still using now, and all those three experiences combined were, to quote Steve Jobs, “a bag of hurt”, even when weighed against a few malfunctioning Macs, system crashes and the the occasional random bug along my 11-year ride on the Apple train). They've gotten much better, yes, but I still wouldn't touch 'em with a 10-foot pole if I was given a choice.
