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> You are making lot of assumptions, for example the '.rules' suffix.

Having some identifier is actually useful for administrators, this way you can just use 

$ mv /etc/nftables/{some.rules,some.rules-disabled}

to disable rules. Having an extension also allow editors to provide syntax highlighting.