By that logic, why put any files in directories? Let's keep the entire project at the root level. The truth is, it's not that the current project roots are a m

By that logic, why put any files in directories? Let's keep the entire project at the root level. The truth is, it's not that the current project roots are a mess. It's that there's a complete and holistic category of file that is being kept in the root of projects, and putting them in a directory dedicated to that category is utterly sensible. Every other category is kept in a dedicated namespace in the file structure, why should config files be the exception?