diff --git a/core/core.el b/core/core.el
index aae87b567..4d26d2944 100644
--- a/core/core.el
+++ b/core/core.el
@@ -208,9 +208,11 @@ users).")
       shared-game-score-directory  (concat doom-etc-dir "shared-game-score/"))
 
 (defadvice! doom--write-to-sane-paths-a (fn &rest args)
-  "When enabling a disabled command, the `put' call is written to
-~/.emacs.d/init.el, which causes issues for Doom, so write it to the user's
-config.el instead."
+  "Write 3rd party files to `doom-etc-dir' to keep `user-emacs-directory' clean.
+
+Also writes `put' calls for saved safe-local-variables to `custom-file' instead
+of `user-init-file' (which `en/disable-command' in novice.el.gz is hardcoded to
+do)."
   :around #'en/disable-command
   :around #'locate-user-emacs-file
   (let ((user-emacs-directory doom-etc-dir)