I’ve definitely retuned basses to tunings like this… and it can be great to have extra drone strings to add more volume, more sound, and allow a certain root note to ring while you create melody over the top.
It is an extremely niche thing to do, however, and in all of my years teaching and sharing my more eccentric bass joys with people, I think only one or two students have ever bitten the hook of weird alt tunings.
It takes a specific purpose - whether it’s pursuing original compositions (that’s where I ended up), or trying to work out arrangements from other instruments, or transcribing more esoteric bass stuff by other alt-tuners.
Because it re-frames so much of the fretboard and disrupts most of the familiar patterns, it’s something I usually introduce much much later, once I’m confident a student has all the fundamentals together, and enough fretboard/chord/harmony know-how to be able to deal with the altered landscape.
But, I’m also into that FAAFO approach that @mgoldst linked us to. If you’re really curious about it and can afford it, go for it. You’ll find something cool with whatever tuning you like.
But if you’re considering re-tuning it because the other strings are disorienting and in the way on standard 6 strings, I don’t think you’ll solve your problem this way.
You’re just going to have new sounds that are going to be disorienting.
The re-tuning and adding of strings is just weird no matter how you slice it.