You are correct about the sequence.
Handles are not objects: they are references to objects. Many different references can exist to the same object.
Suppose you are in a meeting, and while you are listening, you doodle "I want my lunch" on a piece of paper. That piece of paper now has a reference to your lunch. If you throw out the piece of paper, you do not want your lunch to be automatically thrown out as well!
If there was a combined operation, you can be sure that many people would not understand and would misuse it, much like the many many postings we see that use "clear all" without understanding just how much "all" includes.
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