Is there a shorthand way of updating a relationship/array field with an `update` call?

Assuming the following

field in my

collection:

{
    name: 'messages',
    type: 'relationship',
    relationTo: 'messages',
    hasMany: true,
    required: true,
    min: 1,
},

Is there a shorthand and/or better way of doing this?

const thread = await payload.findByID({
  collection: 'threads',
  id: message.thread.id,
  depth: 0,
});
const update = await payload.update({
  collection: 'threads',
  id: message.thread.id,
  data: {
    messages: [ ...thread.messages, message.id ],
  }
});

And similarly for removing an item, or is fetching the doc first to get the field value and do the addition/removal myself the only way?