Introduce an optional, simplified option parsing interface #105

Job	Run time
build-and-test-windows (Debug, windows-latest)	2m 31s
build-and-test-mingw (Debug, g++, windows-latest)	2m 31s
build-and-test-windows (Release, windows-latest)	2m 44s
build-and-test-unix (Debug, g++, ubuntu-latest)	1m 19s
build-and-test-mingw (Debug, clang++, windows-latest)	1m 50s
build-and-test-unix (Debug, g++, ubuntu-20.04)	1m 20s
build-and-test-mingw (Release, g++, windows-latest)	2m 25s
build-and-test-unix (Debug, g++, macos-latest)	1m 4s
build-and-test-mingw (Release, clang++, windows-latest)	2m 4s
build-and-test-unix (Debug, clang++, ubuntu-latest)	1m 17s
build-and-test-unix (Debug, clang++, ubuntu-20.04)	1m 18s
build-and-test-unix (Debug, clang++, macos-latest)	1m 7s
build-and-test-unix (Release, g++, ubuntu-latest)	1m 52s
build-and-test-unix (Release, g++, ubuntu-20.04)	1m 56s
build-and-test-unix (Release, g++, macos-latest)	1m 18s
build-and-test-unix (Release, clang++, ubuntu-latest)	1m 56s
build-and-test-unix (Release, clang++, ubuntu-20.04)	1m 42s
build-and-test-unix (Release, clang++, macos-latest)	1m 30s
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