Combination of main character syndrome, and wanting consistency across platforms like MacOS, which doesn't define $XDG_CONFIG_HOME or $XDG_CACHE_HOME.
Some of us like to install apps that are primarily intended for Linux and are more than happy to have both Linux oriented and macOS oriented programs on the same machine.
Dotfiles are not “crap”. They work quite well, and I’d rather tab out .config vs wade through Library any day.
It’s completely fine to use ~/.config
I'm sure that the space in Application Support (which I agree is annoying) is so hard to get past. I have to hit tab twice! Ugh! But that's so much easier than having to stretch my hand to the lower right to add a fucking . to a folder ostensibly called "config" or "name_of_app_that_shits_in_my_home" instead of just hitting c-tab and so on.
You absolutely cannot fucking convince me that dot-files/dot-folders are good. You might as well be telling me that eating feces is good because you don't have to walk to the fridge. They are one of the absolute stupidest, most lazy and brain-dead things this industry has accepted as normal. And even if they aren't, the XDG_BLANK environment variables (one of the stupidiest ways to set configurations) have absolutely zero place on macOS because macOS is not part of the Free Desktop Group, and if they were there's no shot Apple would've said "yeah shit all over the home directory with some dot-file trash lol".
There’s two things that start with “Application S” in Library. The first alphabetic one is one you almost never use.