The changes look very good and thank for taking the time to do them.
I added a couple of very minor comments. Can you also update this file used by the demo command? https://github.com/vsiakka/gherkin-lint/blob/master/test-data-wip/.gherkin-lintrc

I think we should break compatibility and I can prep that with a major version bump. This will ensure that people don't install by accident the new version and it will prevent us from having to support multiple code paths which depend on the existence of a specific string in the keys of a user defined json file.

This also gives flexibility to add more configuration to the file in the future and it's in par with what .eslinrc does

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