On Mon, Nov 28, 2022, 15:43 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

This is Emacs: you get enough rope to hang yourself. We trust you that you
either know what you are doing, or won't do it.

Still, a brief reminder/warning in the docstring would be nice. We warn, occasionally.

Why do you think it's a bug?

Because the ~/. emacs.d/ one is created but left empty.