No, you don't have to understand the algorithms in order to use the software.

But I understand your feedback. I put it on my list to make it really easy to see the software running once you have the executable.

There is one little complication though -- you do need a working OpenCL install in order to use GpuOwl. For example, for AMD GPUs, you'd need to install ROCm. On Nvidia GPUs you'd need a working install of CUDA.