Right -- OpenSCAD is an object compiler. You give it code, it gives you an object.

Your object is not something that can then be used to iterate on, except by placing it in space and adding or subtracting other stuff to/from it.

Have you looked at Build123D or CadQuery?

Both are Python packages (different API styles, compatible underpinnings) that do OpenSCAD-type things, but using the OpenCASCADE bRep kernel, so it is less "counterfeit" -- if you want to do something based on a face or edge or vertex that was the product of a previous operation, you can. Both have some constraints support.

In many ways they are both just a prettier alternative to the FreeCAD Python APIs -- indeed there was a CadQuery workbench for CadQuery 1.x.