No. That's the separate "it's impossible to merge accounts" point. (I have four separate Apple IDs for two countries.) A lot of the bizarro stuff going on here

No. That's the separate "it's impossible to merge accounts" point. (I have four separate Apple IDs for two countries.) A lot of the bizarro stuff going on here, I think, is because accounts with different histories (e.g., what service they originated with) are still handled differently behind the scenes. It makes no sense, but things really do seem to be path-dependent.