ATtiny..... Is it really that simple?

What you might do is make yourself a shield that has a socket for the ATtiny on it, along with the other connections necesary and then all you have to do is plug the chip in and mount it on your Arduino and program away. I made a board like that has sockets for an ATtiny2313/4313 and an ATMega328 328/P. I program my 2313s with the internal clock so the board needs nothing other than a couple capacitors to run the 2313, and it has a 16MHz resonator for the 328. If I added a jumper I could also program the 8 pin chips on the same board.