Why does "merge --continue" expect no arguments?

There are several git commands that take a "--continue" option...`merge`, `rebase`, `cherry-pick`, etc. From looking through the source though, only `merge --continue` seems to expect no other arguments. Suppose that you have just resolved some merge conflicts, and then want to run `git merge --continue --no-edit` to accept the default merge commit message. Having to open/close the configured text editor still is mildly annoying. I'm interested in submitting a patch to "fix" this `merge` behavior, but I wanted to check if this was really the intended behavior first, and if so why.

Thanks, Dan Vicarel (he/him)