I think it's the same question as whether someone cleaning their own toilet is "a cleaner" for the duration, on which I could go either way.

"There was plenty of mathematics before mathematics got to the point where we needed dedicated humans who spend their whole day computing things in a prescribed manner."

More to the point, there was plenty of useful application of mathematics before then. Which I certainly agree with. My point was that most (and possibly all?) early application of mathematics required computation.

My comment, though, was mostly agreeing with you - just picking apart a technicality to get at some tangential interesting questions.