MeinKraft

Making a shortcut takes effort.

You literally just right click and press the shortcut button

That's 2 whole button presses though.

As opposed to the 10 or so it takes for %appdata%?

Now ew is catching on!

You are no clown; you are the entire circus

Late to the party... I know...

Why not just use a launcher? Search for, download, install, manage and play multiple mod instances and still leave vanilla intact.

Just sayin'.

Not a bad idea either

I still have the %appdata% link bookmarked though for iterative save file archival... especially if I'm about to try something dodgy and I might need to revert.

I always have .minecraft bookmarked for things like backing up worlds, mods, my screenshots, configs, and many more