Aggregation pipeline rules on a sharded cluster

Hi,
I read this principles on aggregation on a sharded cluster.

When aggregation operations run on multiple shards, the results are routed to the mongos to be merged, except in the following cases:

  • If the pipeline includes the $out or $lookup stages, the merge runs on the primary shard.
  • If the pipeline includes a sorting or grouping stage, and the allowDiskUse setting is enabled, the merge runs on a randomly-selected shard.

Curious what makes the two bullet rules behind the scene?

Say for example, $out.
It feels more reasonable for the mongos to merge and write documents across shards because it’s the mongos that knows shard configuration.
Thx