Perhapps it's for local system users with the goal of having system users on /home, mounted from a file server? Perhapps the original /home file system was just moved out of the way (renamed the mountpoint) in order to use /home mount point for a larger disk array or something else? I guess there can be lots of reasons.
Anyway, just a though.
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