As that comment said, it’s there so utilities can use it for checking the return of “chdir()”. It’s at best a name conflict with a shell command with a well established past and use. At worst, it probably enables some bad code smells or outright malicious code.

I've seen questions about sudo (for instance) that ask why does "sudo chdir" not work.

By idiotic I think it's a mistake to blur the line between shell builtins and external commands.