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No, I think you’re on the right track!
It is definitely mind boggling, though!
A rate is revealed through partitively dividing two quantities from a ratio.
While revealing a rate feels more natural when you can look at a ratio as a composed unit, you could technically contrive a rate from a multiplicative comparison as well.