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I think this whole rant is the ‘arrogant’ they’re talking about. I think a lot of authors have a perfectly good point when they say they don’t need the complexity, or want to stick to many decades long conventions.

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There complexity of storing config files in a user's config directory?

There is complexity in making the change and diverging on different platforms. ~/.myapprc was there first and it was XDG that came along and wanted everything to change.

The user's config directory, on Unix, has long been $HOME.

This is just appeal to tradition.

And time and experience has shown that it is a subpar solution, especially when $HOME/.myapprc is effectively hardcoded, so you can't even reconfigure it, you gotta use links.

My point was that apps that put dot files in $HOME are following a convention. You can argue that XDG is better or that it's worse, but you can't accuse the app developers of ignoring conventions in general. It's not like OpenSSH creates its own dirs in / or something.

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