If you work on Mercedes for a living, (which I do part-time), you get used to it in a hurry. MB has never used studs,
AFAIK. And yes, it is a PIA but MB includes a threaded long pin in the factory tool kit for their cars that you hand-thread into one hole and then hang the wheel on that. Makes it a breeze. Every MB tech that I know has a couple on the top shelf of his tool box.