> decided to hijack the primary location designed as a storage for my personal files.

that's the basic misunderstanding, the user folder is for everything that's not system wide on a multiuser system; it's not there for your convenience, it's there to allow programs a writable space that doesn't conflict with everyone's else.

instead of subdirectoring everything else pretending programs to follow some weird never agreed upon specification, just add a "document" folder and put your user generated content there, problem solved.

Edit: apparently even on "hacker news" the mentality of forcing everyone else into obeying instead of solving minor inconveniences the only logical way has taken hold. Not even on widows with their nice buckets and environment variables could solve this, resulting in an exposion of games, my games, three app datas, documents/pictures/videos with apps doing whatever (i.e. shadow play putting screenshots under videos) but no, Rando comes over recycling three environmental variables that are specific of a program and everyone sucks up to it ignoring all the technical, social and other issues to the approach, while shitting upon the only sensible action that can and will work.

So much for applied brains.