Someone correct me if my reasoning is flawed but I’ve heard about this before and it strikes me as a sort of [standards - xkcd]. Configurations have specific places already, they just aren’t followed. Configurations go in /etc, no /usr/etc, no $HOME/.*, no $HOME/.config/. The problem is always that people want to use non-conforming utilities, so I feel like the only way to make this work is to write a suite of conforming utilities, but at that point, there’s nothing wrong with just using one of the existing standards.