NTFS mount points can be very handy for engineering around software that doesn't allow you to customize paths. I can choose VM disks with different performance or replication policies and stitch them together like I would on a *nix OS. It's very handy and only in rare occasions have I had applications "notice" it and balk.
Symlinks also work on NTFS, though mount points have the advantage of not having a canonical path that might be unintentionally resolved and persisted.
