| Antabus said: Those solutions are simply unacceptable for any reasonable customer. |
In other words, you've been shown that it can be done, so you're falling back to the old 'yeah, but it's too complicated for a normal person' position- which is a particularly weak position as Hephaestos has pointed out, as all it involves is copying and pasting or creating a few shortcuts.
I don't assume to speak for everyone, but I'd imagine during a reinstall that backing up one folder and copying it into a new location is a damned sight easier than hunting all over the place for all your other game folders, saved games and app settings. Which is probably why Valve did it this way, of course, and I'm glad they did as it made upgrading to Windows 7 last year a bit of a breeze for me.
