That’s a good point.
The other consideration here is that Nirodha Samapatti is “the cessation of perception and feeing” - no sounds, smells, tastes, sights - and no feeling of the body.
Or, in Nirodha Samapatti, the skandhas cease … meaning that, because sense consciousness has been abandoned, there is no way to hold on to the binding between form, feeling, impulse, and perception.
We also have “neither perception nor non-perception” as the precursor to Nirodha Samapatti … in other words, a transitional state where consciousness (sense consciousness) is in the process of being abandoned … for example, one knows that they are in the presence of sense media, but cannot decipher that media into anything “meaningful”.
Because they do not decipher the media it cannot be called perception, but because they also recognize the media as media it is cannot be called “non-perception”.
I believe the highest attainment taught by the Buddha was a supermundane state where all sense perception has been abandoned. I do not think the ultimate goal of abandonment of skhandas and absolutely no perception of the body occurs in the lower jhanas. And I strongly believe that no perception of the body, “Unbinding”, and being conscious (ie. “aware”) of that state should be differentiated from the “unconscious jhana” that is sometimes “espoused”.
I see the lower jhanas as stepping stones towards that goal; wherein the senses are deliberately detached from - in this case we have five senses, but because the tongue and the body are both tactile sense organs (if you think about it), there are four stages of deliberate detachment from the senses. The bliss and rapture of the jhanas are just the body in a state of detachment from the senses.
The bliss and jhana are what we would feel all of the time if we were withdrawn from the senses and not “slaves” to them.