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LOL.
Pages of posts.
I am amazed you hadn't noticed.
It is perfectly normal and that is how it is supposed to be since Vista. Modern partition managers do the same by default, though some allow you to select a different alignment.
Poor alignment will reduce performance, particularly for SSDs (page size of 4,096 or 8,192 bytes), hard disks with 4,096 byte sectors and RAID volumes.