Comment by watersb

XDG directories for macOS dotfiles is my hill to tilt windmills.

To make it extra fun, my $HOME directory is immutable:

   chflags uchg "${HOME}"

(Simply setting it read-only would work too.)

Preventing arbitrary writes in $HOME breaks things, but it's actually quite rare.

I should document this setup. Or perhaps it's better to keep the madness to myself...