It’s not ideal, no, but I find it better than OpenSCAD for the simple reason that it’s inside of a complete programming language. But that’s rarely needed so, eh?

I don’t know what my ideal code-first solution would look like, but at least there’s multiple options!

OpenSCAD is great, but with Python experience I’d recommend taking a look at CadQuery.

Oh snap, as someone who’s recently joined, do you have some information you could point me to?