Correct, you are basically preventing any other setting change, edit to a playlist, a platform, a category, a game, emulator set-up, etc.. I would assume any attempt to might crash LB/BB since it will not be able to update the needed file. You mentioned you would not be doing any changes, but there are changes LB/BB do on their own such as play count and play time. So those would be updated in the platform xaml file automatically.