Why callbacks for the after_find and after_initialize events is to define them as methods?

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The only way to define callbacks for the after_find and after_initialize events is to define them as methods. If you try declaring them as handlers using the second technique, they’ll be silently ignored.

Can anybody explain why is it so?

Why specifically for these two callbacks?

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