"Made easier" would be more accurate
in my experiecne the hardest part of machine vision (on a pC) is getting all the bits installed and playing nicely with each other
they don't teach you that the defualt opencv built with vs will clash with Qt libs built with mingw but the ing system won't tell you this!
Of course back in the day, when it had to be a Sparc station crammed full of custom i860 boards it as even harder!