I have already posted this to emacs-devel people (see https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-12/msg00045.html).
After a recent Emacs build from master I find `org-persist` directory in my `.emacs.d` folder. It brings no benefit but only garbage in `.emacs.d`. So how can I disable the creation of that folder? Emacs-devel people suggests to disable `org-element-cache-persistent` but (setq org-element-cache-persistent nil) does not fix the issue because the directory is recreated each time I quit from Emacs.. All this is very annoying. You should not enable this by default and let people that finds it really useful to enable it in its own init.el. Best wishes,