Because Wine does mimic Windows, so it should mimic the behavior of
Windows.

And it is better if Wine mimics the behavior of a new Windows (such as
2000, XP or Vista), instead of mimicking an old legacy version of
Windows (such as 95).

Maybe there is no purely technical reason, since applications should use the 
%USERPROFILE% environment variable anyways. But having the directory in same 
place as in recent versions of Windows, makes it easier for users to find it.
The only pseudo-technical reason is that it would increase compatibility with 
programs by crappy developers who used hardcoded paths instead of environment 
variables.

I tried to find it, and didn't find it at first, then I found it under
the Windows directory after a while. It was not where I expected it to
be.

Wine identifies itself as Windows 2000 (last, I heard), so it should put the 
files where Windows 2000 does too, not 95, because Wine does not identify was 
Windows 95.
Microsoft didn't move the profile directory for no reason, they had a reason 
todo it. Windows 2000 is far superior to Windows 95 which is a crap system that 
never was any good.

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