I’ll leave to you to decide if everything is achieved when deploying from local system w/ Skuid CLI since you know your requirements best :) Without knowing how GearSet works, I can’t be sure but it’s possible you can leverage whatever the process is that GearSet uses and invoke a CLI command from that process.
Regarding not liking to go deeper into the weeds “unless it’s easy” - I’d challenge you on that :) I recall a time a while back when you dug in to javascript and Skuid API despite no prior knowledge of JS and, unlike using a CLI tool, involved actual coding. Just like everything else, there’s what you can do out of the box declaratively but to really harness the “power”, sometimes you need to jump in to the deep end. 
