https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2020/213/1/emerging-viral-mut...
“ Recombination in RNA viruses involves the exchange of genetic information between two nonsegmented RNA genomes, as distinct from the reassortment of RNA seen in viruses containing segmented genomes. ... The second virus family to be shown to undergo RNA recombination is coronavirus (Lai et al. 1985).”
they can and do and you are naive for saying they do not