I am yes. Would you make the same claim about eg image editing? If not, why not?
On the other hand, there are vector graphics editors that let you work in terms of shapes and paths instead of pixels. Would you say you are trying to build the musical equivalent of that?
[1] https://www.infoq.com/presentations/music-functional-languag...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJZyXqJ6nog
https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/dev/editors/python_consol...
[0] https://vimeo.com/36579366 (circa 3 min. mark)