You're correct, moving the folder can expose a poorly written tool, meaning a tool that isn't following the symlink and isn't using XDG_CONFIG_HOME. To me, it'

You're correct, moving the folder can expose a poorly written tool, meaning a tool that isn't following the symlink and isn't using XDG_CONFIG_HOME. To me, it's an advantage to surface the latent problems, so I can message the authors to ask them about updating. So far, all authors are good with updating. It turns out the bulk of the issues are in internal scripts that hardcoded ~/.config instead of using XDG_CONFIG_HOME. This is an easy fix, and at the same time we shellcheck those scripts.