They do this because this is the nature of SPI bus and this is how bus communications is done. Look:
Data transmission
Every SPI clock cycle is a full duplex data transmission. The master sends a bit on the MOSI pin and the slave reads it, while the slave sends a bit on the MISO pin and the master reads it. This sequence is true even if you only need an one-directional data transfer.
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