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The program seems to assume you'll clone it in your home directory, and has paths hardcoded to `~/.ellrc.d/`.

This is just bad.

I wouldn't say these paths are hardcoded. They are just default values. You can set the variables manually.

What is hard coded is that it indeed looks for configurations from `$HOME/.ellrc` and `$PWD/.ellrc`, with lowest precedence. Environment variables and command line arguments will overwrite them.

Convention over configuration isn't bad per se, as the alternatives tend to devolve to bikeshedding.

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