As an Ubuntu Linux user I would love to play this game some day but I don't really feel like going through the whole process of installing Wine and having to do the entire process just to get this to work. I would love to see a Linux version, and a Mac one for that matter, in the future and I would just like to ask if that is a possibility in the future.

This is kind of only a patch fix to your problem, but as a fellow Linux user, if you are manually configuring wine you are absolutely doing it wrong and this can be so much easier for you
You should be using some sort of wine launcher, the popular one is lutris but i suggest using either bottles or faugus launcher, particularly faugus.

guide for faugus:

-use the gui app protonplus to download a recent version of proton-ge(i suggest 10-3 because i tested that one on votv already)
-install and open faugus(guide on the github, unfortunately looks very inconvenient to do on ubuntu)
-add the name of the game, pick the directory for the prefix(the default is good), and point to the location of the exe, and select the version of ge-proton you downloaded
-if you did everything correctly, it should just work without much struggle.

Just do it through Steam: 
- Download VotV and extract it wherever you want.
- Open your Steam client.
- On the top left menu, go to Games > Add a Non-Steam Game to My Library.
- Click Browse... > Find your game > Add it in your file manager UI > In Steam UI, you need to click "Add Selecter Programs".
- The game will appear somewhere in your library as "VotV.exe".
- Right click on it > Properties... > Compatibility > Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool > Select any recent Proton version, or Proton Experimental.
- Launch the game. Accept the downloads of UE stuff. Enjoy.
Bonus tip: you can rename the game in the same properties menu and even add an icon, logo and banner if you look it up on Steam Grid DB website.
Bonus bonus tip: you can play any Windows non-Steam game this way. You're welcome.