I completely expect for that to be the case. My point is, there are already programs distributed with macOS that don’t put config in the ~/Library/Application S

I completely expect for that to be the case. My point is, there are already programs distributed with macOS that don’t put config in the ~/Library/Application Support folder. Knowing this, I don’t see a good argument for (especially portable) CLI/TUI programs for keeping user editable config data in the App Support folder.