I can’t answer specifically for this case, but the idea, as a rule, is that the browser tries to make the page approximately in the order of the document. Having the most recently included scripts means that the rendering can do its job and display the static parts of the page, and then the scripts are loaded. I could not give specific data on how this really affects the user interface, but the idea is to make it so that the page is viewable before the scripts have finished loading.
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