every dot/config file in a project root is technical debt #ChangeMyMind
@db also, putting them in a subfolder is just an additional abstraction layer which will just confuse 90% of the people.
@pcdevil does that even work? I feel like most software shits the bed if it can't find in root
@db ESLint, TypeScript, Prettier, Vite and Vitest most definitely support some kind of cli argument to set the config file. (Prettier actually mentions this scenario in the documentation.)