I'm not sure it is so uncommon - just that there is no answer. I'm pretty convinced that a lot less people would complain about the XDG Base Directory Specifica

I'm not sure it is so uncommon - just that there is no answer. I'm pretty convinced that a lot less people would complain about the XDG Base Directory Specification if that would be possible. I'm one of those (though I usually do not publicly complain about it).