That’s the way you see much of the argument play out.
Many re-write it like this...
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It’s just not how the order of operations goes.
Yep.
I could give some people the benefit of the doubt that they are simply reading everything to the right of the / as the denominator. But they insist on making silly arguments about the distributive property, etc. to justify what they are doing. Like claiming 2(x+y) means something different than 2*(x+y).