To clarify João, I make no judgment about the utility or morality of quick hacks broadly. However, as someone who spends the majority of their time in languages and systems which generally take a dim view of pervasive mutable state, I am intensely wary of doing things to my configuration which risk making it incompatible with future updates in dependent parts. Should this problem ever be resolved more generally, it is quite possible I will not hear about it, and your quick hack will start causing unexpected behavior that I will then have to fix myself down the line. Indeed, I have oft mused about creating an Emacslike programming environment in which packages are pure and persistent and upgrades are done in a way that can be provably reversed, like nix-pkgs does for system packages, purely because of my historical frustration with things breaking when they shouldn’t and me not being able to reliably isolate the cause of their failure.