How can I use the /home directory on Mac OS X : revisited

Question

I would like to mount /Users to /home on my macbook (Catalina Version 10.15.6).

I have three systems: an Ubuntu laptop, a rhel server and a macbook. I have some python scripts (written by others) that uses configuration files where full file paths need to be mentioned (no ~). I don't like changing the home path in the scripts from /Users/x to /home/x multiple times.

There's this question on SO about the same thing but three years have passed and I wonder if anything has changed. The person who wrote the accepted answer himself recommend doing something else and I can not do that. I am genuinely concerned about two things:

1. Automatic back up of this folder.
2. Will a system update wipe this folder out?

Answer 1

Personally I'm convinced that any software requiring hard coded paths to home directories is broken and needs to be fixed, but I understand that this isn't possible sometimes. So in your situation I would just disable the auto mounter for /home (see How to remove '/home' directory?) and then symlink /home to /Users. This also solves the backup issue.

PS: Biggest risk probably is that a future update will rewrite auto_master but that you can easily fix again.