[sergeykish]

There is no One True Place, would you like drawers with my preferences and no way to override?

The list of configuration files/directories is known. Why can't those who bother present them as they desire? Instead of forcing their will on others.

There reason for ~/.config is separation from data and cache. And the reason behind XDG Base Directory Specification is a generic way to run application with another config `XDG_DATA_HOME=foo bar`.