A simple starter kit, that's designed to be a basic developer accelerator for working with Sitecore. The issue with other helix starter kits, is that they add additional features you might not need, especially if you are not building out a full blown website.
It would be great if when you first pull down the tool that there is an initialize gulp task that will ensure you have all pre-reqs + install your Sitecore 9 instance on your machine based on your settings.
It would be great if when you first pull down the tool that there is an initialize gulp task that will ensure you have all pre-reqs + install your Sitecore 9 instance on your machine based on your settings.