Acolyte takng bindings unpon themselves

When an acolyte takes the bindings of a victim it removes the affects completely for everything, including blackjack, but it doesn't do anything for the remnants of a failed binding. Is this intended? Or should it not make more sense that they take everything including the partial ropes? To be honest the ability to do this just doesn't seem to make sense to me, I understand the aliments but rope?