Ridiculous! You violated your own rule again, specifically: "An operator only operates on one number, or value. "I agree."
Agreed. The ONE value is 2(9+3) or 24. You need to solve Parenthesis first... Then you simplify your denominator. Then you can complete your equation.
You could even do this to reduce your terms...
24/1(12)=2. Still works.
As you describe it, and others also note, you'd need another set of Parenthesis to make it isolate the (48/2) from the (6+9). Then your logic agrees.