“Hidden” files and directories are outnumbering non-hidden ones 6:1 in my home directory:

ldo@theon:~> ls -A ~/ | grep -c '^.' 215 ldo@theon:~> ls -A ~/ | grep -vc '^.' 35 ldo@theon:~> ls -A ~/ | wc -l 250

Quite a few applications are starting to adopt the XDG Base Directory Spec https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/, but it just can’t happen fast enough...