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read the man page
The good ol' RTFM
For real. Usually the config file locations is at the bottom, so jumping to it is quick.
this is not really what the article is about.
yes you can read man page, you can find there all possible locations of config files. yet you still don't know where config file is stored. you have to check all the possible locations.
also if there would be some standard so you can query app for its config files, you could make automated backups easily. at least much easier that now.
of course I understand this is completely unrealistic, in software world everyone will do whatever they want..