We can hide it away if that would make you happier.

The point is it's a time-saver. The amount of times we've said "oh, I forgot to update the WEB-INF folder"! Happy for you to make a decision on where this should go, but we need a solution for this until we remove the app/WEB-INF requirement.

A plugin was a possibility. But it seems we don't have solution for maintaining plugins right now and they quickly get out of date. This is another discussion.