It's not a common thing but I've seen some users who usually do it like that, it's safer in case a different disk fails during the rebuild since you can use the old disk and parity will still be 100% in sync, it won't be just by starting the array normally, even if no other changes are done, and while this is usually not a big deal if you need to use the invalid slot with xfs disks it will be with btrfs disks, since they have a transaction ID and just by doing a single mount it will be out of date with the old disk.