Yes. I think that the plugins should probably not be in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME, but in $XDG_DATA_HOME, if I’m reading correctly.

But in part my point is that there's virtually no one who gets this correct either with Linux systems or macOS, which is what makes rants like the parent article so annoying.

Plenty of programs get $XDG_CONFIG_HOME and $XDG_DATA_HOME.

The ones that don't are mainly lazy ports from Windows where that speration doesn't exist.