Kitty does this as well. Looks like every terminal ships with their own terminfo nowadays. Apparently this is to work around the ncurses maintainer.

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/2773

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/879

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2018-09/msg00...