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!

It automated installing different implementations, including auto111

Yeah, take a look at one of the many it interfaces to stable diffusion. This will let you install and fool around with several very easily.

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