Not if you break it into sections. The pressure washing, at least. You simply rent a hot water pressure washer capable of exerting over 3,000 PSI. I recommend renting because to buy a unit for a few uses is silly and not smart. Using hot water, you can avoid having to use stronger detergents as you would with cold water. Additionally, there's some earth safe detergents out there made for hot water use. You'll use less water to clean grime off. Once everything's done, you wait a few days for it to dry out. Then use a stiff nylon brush and sweep everything down. Pour sealer and use associated tools to move it around. You could do it in sections, too, provided you feather the end portions of the section you last completed. Stone tinting is tricky. You don't have a lot of choice because of the original color of your stonework. A dark tint solution will enhance the natural color while also affecting the grout or filler material in between, so that it doesn't stick out like a sore thumb.
These days you could think of anything and it can be done. Stone's been on the back burner for years now as concrete tech and application has advanced. It's stronger, flexible under pressure to resist cracking, and it can be designed any way you would want. What I like about pavers or stone is if they do break or crack, you can chisel them out and replace them with a similar looking stone.
Doing a really good concrete patch and aging it to blend in takes skill and hours of resurfacing. A simpler method is to have it patched and resurfaced using a slurry. These slurries use resin compounds to give flexibility where fiberglass in the original pour may have failed. It's cool stuff but as you said, messy for a first timer.
It'd be easier to pay a company 15-20K to redo your driveway depending on its length, but the experience of doing it yourself makes it worthwhile. There are things I'd never do; pipes, electrics, gas, sprinklers, etc.
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(Congrats on the car though. You finally got it!)
