[ramses0]

This is a _very_ clear P.O.V.:

Who installed '/foo/bar/baz' when '/foo' is a symlink to '/usr/bin'?

I'm 100% in favor of the DPKG maintainer's perspective of "do ugly symlink farms" and then "reap what you sow" (ie: if you don't like there being a symlink there, then fix the offending package).