There are countless tools that write to the bash files though, which is not true for most programs. Bash changing its locations would break all of these.
Heck, git adopted ~/.config/git years ago, and yet just last week I ran across a tool that created and wrote to ~/.gitconfig instead of my ~/.config/git/config. If Bash tried to change then we'd be dealing with the fallout probably forever.
Heck, git adopted ~/.config/git years ago, and yet just last week I ran across a tool that created and wrote to ~/.gitconfig instead of my ~/.config/git/config. If Bash tried to change then we'd be dealing with the fallout probably forever.