Funny

do you mean Documents/My Games

There used to be a "Saved Games" (or some such, can't remember off the top of my head) folder in your user folder (e.g. C:\Users\starelfsc2\Saved Games). If it's no longer there, presumably, MS removed it since practically nobody ever used it. I think it came first with Vista.

And yes we are not talking about saves, we’re also talking about config files

That goes in %programdata%.

potential mods

Inside the game's installation folder.

potential screenshots

That's what the Pictures folder is for..

Some devs also put logs next to saves in case a game crashed or misbehaved, especially in the case of moddable games

I wouldn't mind these showing up in the My Games/Saved Games folder, honestly.

Even non-technical people can read a log and see file not found

Non-technical people who don't know how to find %programdata% won't know what to do with a .log file. They'd need to google that anyway, and in doing so, would learn about Program Data.

Yes and I also have nothing to do with someone turning their car into my lane, but I’m not going to smash into them and say well I was in the right

Of course. You should expect them to NOT drive in your lane.

What you are suggesting instead is that the city council builds another lane just in case someone starts driving on the wrong side of the road.

and they can be fully justified as every user has their games break. Do you know why people blame onedrive and not the game? Because they actually wanted the game.

Mate, I don't know what to tell you. When I was still running Windows on my gaming PC, I had OneDrive enabled. My brother has OneDrive enabled. My wife has OneDrive enabled. Some 90% of my friends and acquaintances have OneDrive enabled. We game a lot, and I mean A LOT. I currently have just shy of 1TB of games installed.

NEVER had I experienced ANY issues with ANY software, games or otherwise, that would be caused by OneDrive just doing its thing.

So, considering this anecdotal evidence, and putting it against the "Reddit threads" of "OneDrive broke something", AND against those where "Search doesn't work!" after a dude broke his Windows with a script he found online - I'm leaning towards the opinion that if someone is having issues with OneDrive, they caused them themselves, somehow.

Config files and mod files are unimportant to the user…?

To the VAST majority of users? Yes, they are. I can't remember the last time I had to fiddle with a config file... 2008? Maybe 2010? As for mods - if you're modding a game, you can spend all of 30 seconds extra to learn where Program Data lives.

And again troubleshooting as a non-poweruser is still possible if the log says “file not found.”

See above.

my choices are be really confused and have games be broken

Yeah, I'm calling bullshit on this one. But I already explained that above.

Really so if I go on my pc right now and type for i in 0…10000 sleep 1 echo test >> ~/Documents/terriblespot.txt will this cause massive lag spikes in games?

That's what I'm trying to explain: it SHOULD NOT. If it DOES, then something is broken on your end - either with the software (OS/services/something) or the hardware.

What about if I write to /boot just for fun

Umm, /boot? What's that? That's not a Windows thing.

surely it won’t work just fine because it’s my computer not Microsoft’s.

What are you trying to argue here now? "Microsoft bad" or something more specific?

And I as well as most people click the x

And that's, somehow, Microsoft's fault.........?

So I was actually just supposed to know that meant “we are actually syncing your folders unless you specifically say not to.”

No, you doughnut, you were supposed to click the notification and learn about OneDrive!

I’m sure onedrive is perfectly fine for work applications, but for anyone that plays any games ever I have told them always uninstall or disable onedrive ASAP

Skill issue.

I had actually forgotten that it can lock your documents folder and break games (and I believe other programs too)

That's because it can't, unless you break something.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Sims3/comments/y1mhf8/psa_if_you_arent_able_to_save_on_windows_11_22h2/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Sims3/comments/y1mhf8/comment/ism2uwm/

Also: my wife was just recently playing Sims3 on Windows 11 and OneDrive on with zero issues.

I mean... Dude, just try. Do a fresh install. Don't run any scripts, don't run any CCleaners or such, don't edit any registry settings, don't install any WinAeroTweaks or such. Just fresh install, log in to where you need to log in (including OneDrive, for the test), install some games and test it out. I guarantee that - barring hardware issues - you'll have a smooth ride.