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>>taubek+(OP)
Roughly the same reason why dotfiles became a thing on Unix: https://linux-audit.com/linux-history-how-dot-files-became-h... Fortunately more and more software is putting its config in ~/.config/ rather than dumping it all over users' home directories.

>>bjourn+6f
AFAIK the XDG spec isn't a thing on macOS, so you get those CLI utilities written by devs on their fancy Macbook Pro that pollute your home directory, such as Deno, Doom Emacs, Elixir, Rust/Cargo, Kubernetes, npm, vscode, etc.

>>sph+Xg
It's inconsistent, but certainly some programs adhere to XDG on macos. I've got pretty healthy looking ~/.config and ~/.local directories, and it's not all just my own stuff.