[hnlmorg]

Murex doesn't just target POSIX systems and XDG added a lot of edge case problems I wasn't prepared to deal with at the time. Particularly so back when the shell was first created. So I went with the de facto shell standard instead.

You can override that behaviour if you want to use XDG but making it the default could break backwards compatibility, result in confusing documentation for non-POSIX users and introduce a lot of additional development and testing just to fix something that already works fine.

Like with any open source project, if someone else is willing to commit some time into solving these concerns then I'll gladly merge it. But I need to be pragmatic with how I prioritise my development time.