macOS Sonoma symlink – “Operation not permitted”

I’m trying to set up a symlink for neovim config that I store in a git repo. It works fine when running on Linux, but when I try on my macbook I get the following error:

ln -sfn ~/dotfiles-and-utils/nvim ~/.config
ln: /Users/<my username>/.config/nvim: Operation not permitted

My guess from looking for a solution to this is that it has something to do with macOS SIP, but at the same time I don’t think /Users/username/.config should be covered by SIP?