Why ext3 uses different policies to allocate inodes for dirs and files?

The policy seems to distribute dir inodes uniformly on all block
groups. Why do we want to do this?  Isn't it better to create a dir
inode close to its parent dir inode?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Xin
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