I am doubling down on this, downvoters be damned. I mentioned GitHub because the OP mentioned GitHub, but it will be easier to persuade the top five or ten for

I am doubling down on this, downvoters be damned. I mentioned GitHub because the OP mentioned GitHub, but it will be easier to persuade the top five or ten forges to hide these files by default than to - persuade the top twenty language/tooling ecosystems to look for their config files in .config - wait for these updated tools to roll out - update most existing projects to move their config files into this directory