The only time I could think there would be a point to /etc not being on / is if it was mounted *read only* over NFS and shared on a large group of machines or some thing to that effect.
In which case I would guess people would want to eventually read the diskless operation parts of the handbook.
Or just rsync /etc via ssh ontop of a minimal /etc.
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