I wholeheartedly agree with this blog post. I believe someone on here yesterday was asking about config file locations and setting them manually. This is in the same vein. I can’t tell you how many times a command line method for discovering the location of a config file would have saved me 30 minutes of googling.
Like
$XDG_CONFIG_HOMEand$XDG_DATA_HOME?Sadly, what we seem to have over and over is https://xkcd.com/927/
It’s getting better though