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Unless you use Antergos you need to at least manually build yaourt and its AUR dependencies once.

also, you can imitate yaourt with literally wget <pkgbuild> makepkg pacman -U <pkg>. There isn't a lot of secret sauce to take out of your life by automating those steps after you do it once or twice.

One word: dependencies. Of AUR packages on other AUR packages, in an unbalanced tree three-four levels deep. That's why most people use AUR helpers.

In case you haven't tried pacaur, you should give pacuar a try. From my experience, pacaur is better than yaourt.

pacaur: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacaur

Some AUR packages won't build with yaourt for some reason too, in which case you still have to use cower or download them from the website, and run makepkg yourself.

I didn't know about cower. Probably should give it a try. Thanks for the idea.