> Well, I could argue that I did this because the paths can be mutated from anywhere prior too.

That's another reason I think this should only return the load paths that have been added through rspec config: because if the user wants all load paths they can already get it via `$LOAD_PATH`.  However, they don't have a way to get the load paths that were configured via rspec, and that, to me, is the value proposition of having this method at all.  (If it's just going to return `$LOAD_PATH`, I'd just encourage users to use `$LOAD_PATH` directly.)