Something like photos processed by darktable are a good example of why this isn’t always practical. You have your raw files and your sidecar files side by side.

Something like photos processed by darktable are a good example of why this isn’t always practical. You have your raw files and your sidecar files side by side. You could separate them in settings I suspect but that’s not the default and god forbid you ever lose one. If you are in the habit of putting JPEGs in the same place you really want to separate by extension.