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Honey bees were domesticated, selectively bred like all other livestock, to be more docile and dependent. The relationship you describe was created by humans for the benefit of humans.
Wild honey bees will do the same thing, leaving a hive and the queen behind to start a new hive. Sometimes it makes sense as a survival strategy to pack up and start again elsewhere. It might be part of why honey bees were able to be domesticated, they were used to the idea of being moved and rebuilding.