Flags are "local" - why?

As already mentioned in other articles, flags in Lr are said to be "local". Not like color labels or keywords, flags belong to "photo instances" rather than photos.
In other words: If I flag a photo looking at it through a collection, the same photo is not flagged when navigating through folders. Why?
I like to switch forth and back through different views of my photos (e.g. Last Import, Quick Collection) but why can't I use flags in such a workflow?

What I tried to do was marking photos as "rejects" in order to later phisically delete them.
I choose a subset of photos to process from my "Last Import" container and created a quick collection. I then marked some pictures as "rejects" (while in quick collection). At the very end, I tried to delete all rejected photos but - since I was looking at a quick collection - there was just a remove but no delete command available.
So I switched back to "Last Import" view and now all my rejects were gone...

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