Is it necessary to add prefixes of halogens (more than 1) to the iupac name alphabetically?
With the preferred IUPAC name (PIN), there is exactly one way that you expect to find a compound written.

Assume you want to buy the compound from the chemical supplier of your choice but don’t have a CAS number at hand. What do you do? You search for the compound in the catalogue. In the old days, these were always paper books that you could use as a weapon but nowadays electronic catalogues exist to. Still, if you’re looking for 1-bromo-3-chloropentane but it is entered into the catalogue as 3-chloro-1-bromopentane, you’re going to have a very hard time searching for it.

There are also other reasons why having one defined standard way of naming compounds is strongly preferred over random but clear.