Given that people expect their folders in MacOS to leave things where they put them and the fact that .DS_Store files aren’t visible by default, I can’t agree w

Given that people expect their folders in MacOS to leave things where they put them and the fact that .DS_Store files aren’t visible by default, I can’t agree with you. It ensures that these settings carry over regardless of what actions you take on the directories and is low complexity. It seems much more preferable to me than a centralized database to track and maintain all the changes and is not portable. I do think it should be an option to disable them, but to suggest that it shouldn’t be on by default is asinine. They’re serving the broader population, not grumpy nerds.