Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-33561080-20170305231008/@comment-27345308-20170305231335

No, that isn't strange, that's how Wikia (and MediaWiki in general) have been set up for years. Bureaucrat group does not give any other rights except to give/take other user groups and unblock themselves, per Special:ListGroupRights. It is a common mistake people make because they think bureaucrat is a "head" of a wiki and administrator is "lower" than bureaucrat.