If someone thinks hidden files are a misstep, then I don't want them designing a OS. Grandma really doesn't care about some conf file, or anything like that. She cares about the pictures of her grandkids.
The opinion that there shouldn't be hidden files comes from a perspective of someone who is a "power user" and who can't step back and see that most users really don't care for some .config file. To them it's clutter that gets in the way of finding what they really care about.
That said, dot files maybe the wrong way to do it. I like ~/Library in OSX. That's one good way.
Edit: Note that I'm talking about a general trend in the post's comments and on here. Not the author's opinion.
The opinion that there shouldn't be hidden files comes from a perspective of someone who is a "power user" and who can't step back and see that most users really don't care for some .config file. To them it's clutter that gets in the way of finding what they really care about.
That said, dot files maybe the wrong way to do it. I like ~/Library in OSX. That's one good way.
Edit: Note that I'm talking about a general trend in the post's comments and on here. Not the author's opinion.