I am not aware of any such impairment. Are you?
Here's what I recall. This could be wrong, my memory is... ... what was I going to say? I don't remember...
I seem to recall that config.ini didn't like nonstandard formatting. It was something like either semicolons didn't count as comments, or it didn't handle them right or something, or if the file wasn't in a perfect [section](cr) key=value(cr) format, then it would get corrupted on the next emplode edit.
The only reason I thought of hijack was because I thought that early in hijack's history it used some settings that either had the semicolon doing something emplode didn't like, or the lines didn't have equals signs, or something like that. It's all a blur to me now, but I could have sworn we discussed it here on the board.