Why rewrite path.parse?

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In https://github.com/bodymovin/bodymovin-extension/blob/4f1de8ebfe5beaebc4c7d54fbbdf363ca685478c/src/helpers/ImageProcessorHelper.js#L4
You overwrite the builtin function like this:

var path = require('path');
path.parse = function(_path){
	return {
		dir:''
	}
}

Is this a workaround?