unusual configuration quirk, affecting PATH

[Bushmills]

The Apr 15 2024 version of /etc/profile with size of 8113 bytes - therefore unmodified, still in state as received - contains 205 identical lines, each of them appending /usr/sbin and /sbin to PATH.
The consequence is a hugely long PATH with many duplicates of these two directories.

Apparent purpose is to add the these directories also to PATH of user login, not just to root PATH.

I therefore logged in as user "sovol", the account defaulting to password "sovol", switched to root ("sudo sh"), edited /etc/profile, by removing all trailing export PATH="$PATH:/usr/sbin:/sbin", then appended these two directories to user path definition on line 7, which now reads:
PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games:/usr/sbin:/sbin"