Thanks for the heads-up. It’s not “my own tooling” that broke when the symlink was absent, it’s CheckMK itself that didn’t work correctly anymore. And I was not able to debug this at all. I’m not looking forward to that particular change, to be honest.
And judging by the fact that other prominent plugin devs also have bakery files in both potential locations makes me think I won’t be the only one who’ll be surprised.