[fiddlerwoaroof]

The convention of hiding files starting with a dot is not a usability mistake. It’s a usability improvement.

[eviks]

Why would you hide the files a user is explicitly expected to tweak to configure an app's behavior and call it an improvement??? It degrades the config experience, what part of "usability" is improved?

Also, fun historical fact: it was a bug when it was implemented https://linux-audit.com/linux-history-how-dot-files-became-h...