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Not a click, but in default keymap, hit the spacebar while in the viewport, and start typing in whatever you want to add (ie Cube, Sphere, etc...)

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That's the easy part. Now how would I make it into a brick wall?

Right -- you won't find a 'brick wall button' in the default Blender, because that isn't a simple idea, and there's variations of brick walls one could make. You can probably accomplish a brick wall by stretching out a cube, putting an array modifier on it with some kind of offset (maybe duplicate it and then offset that). There's probably some Python-Addons that will do this too.

But honestly, if you're looking for software that ship with presets, get something like Bryce3d.

>because that isn't a simple idea

But I can find a whole bunch of step-by-step procedures to make a brick wall. Why can't it be automated as a button (or at least a plugin)?

What would be more interesting if it would be turned into a pure "engine" so people can skin it.

Actually, you can. Blender allow it's user to have custom feature via python scripts. You can have a button to create a brick wall.

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