Saving Variables Locally Without SavedVars?

[ensiferumviking]

Is there something about the API that prevents us from just writing directly to local files?

I wanted to make a little addon to build up a csv file of a bunch of game data overtime (like a log file of certain in-game events), for personal use - not really planning on making something to distribute.

I guess the SavedVariables is the normal way to do this but a csv where i can just specify the filepath directly would be way more convenient for me. Not an option?