This film was unbelievably one of the earliest to have more than one commentary track. And somehow the studio felt this film warranted paying for it?

Most likely it was done because Mila Kunis was willing to do one, after the director had recorded this one. It actually has less dead spots than the one with the same director and Kunis. And here he talks a lot about how a number of technical innovations made low-budget filmmaking much better and easier. And on that level it could be interesting to those in film school.

I just really hope there was not some Hitchcock or obscure Kurosawa criterion disc that lost a commentary track because money was shuffled around for this one.

Totally unnecessary if you heard the other commentary track. Actually also totally unnecessary if you did not listen to the other one.