Suggestion: XMP Sidecar File Folder

Is that by any chance the same software that caused you issues with file corruption?

Also, while you may not need to move files around after importing in dt, others may have to…
And what do you propose to do to maintain inter-operability with other programs?

Dt doesn’t create sidecar files for exported images. Any metadata are embedded in the written file (when/if possible). And anyway, “exporting” doesn’t move files around, it creates them.