@niemeyer Well, yes and no.

First is that there can exist measures of better and worse that respond
to how humans process information. We may not want or be able to use
them, but they exist and they are meaningful.

Second, and more importantly, the snap directory does not contain only
user-created content. I just opened gnome-calculator in the latest
Ubuntu, and that created the snap directory in it. Inside, I get
current, current/199, current/222, current/238, current/common, and a
symbolic link. These are not files I created. My first thought when I
see this is "WTF!" (What are These Files!!!). This is not user-created
comment, and it's meaningless to me.

Also, even if we only base the decision on consistency and common
practices, as I just tried to explain, having a directory not hidden
with a fixed name in the home directory is not a common practice. If you
refer to directories such as Videos and Documents, then these have a
different purpose, meaningful names, and they are configurable. If you
refer to other exceptions in which those directories include
configuration files (which I think you don't), then I suspect these are
very rare. I cannot really think of any. Perhaps you could explain one
case in which this happens, is accepted by the community, and could
support having snap there in plain sight?

Also, I would appreciate it if we could keep this focused on the
discussion, and not the person. I may be passionate or not, you do not
know me, but I've referred/discussed your arguments, not you, and I ask
you to do the same.

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