Why was the path to my save games hidden in a dotfile-folder?

It isn’t any better on Windows, but oh boy does this one piss me off.

~/.config/mygame — wtf, no it's not config
~/mygame — fuck off, the home folder is mine
~/.local/share/mygame — better, I guess?
~/.cache/mygame — absolutely not here
~/.steam/.../MyGame — still not great, but at least it's self contained