You literally can use combo buttons out of order, but it's a bad idea. Having pressable buttons that are "wrong" is a valid video game concept.
It's the buttons that you literally literally can't use out of order that should be consolidated.
It's fine for GNB 1-2-3 to be 1-2-3. But its intercombo 1(1b)-2(2b)-3(3b) should just be 1(4)-2(4)-3(4) because the intercombo literally can't be used out of order.