It's nothing to do with importance and everything to do with how often you need to see and access the file. My .vimrc and .bashrc are super important, but I ra

It's nothing to do with importance and everything to do with how often you need to see and access the file. My .vimrc and .bashrc are super important, but I rarely need to edit them and I never need to be reminded of their existence, so having them show up every time I ran ls in home would be annoying.