IOS Address book with empty contact

I saw some issues in the iPhone address book. I am not sure it is issue or not.
We can create the contact without any information. I mean click the create button and just save. It is saving. what is the reason?
Are their any particular purpose?

I've noticed a few major discrepancies between Address Book and Google as well.
Companies tend to duplicate as people.
Deleting the person in AB has no effect on Google.
Deleting the person in Google results in both being deleted in AB, but the company remaining in Google.
There's also a LOT of minor differences between sync'd contacts and imported contacts in Google (groups going into comments, lost images, etc).
I'd love to slap whoever is responsible on both sides. I've written data migration code before, it's not that difficult, and should've been ironed out a long time ago.

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