I think it can maybe make sense for the software to treat them as different. But "you don't have any alarms" when I ask about my alarms but I had actually set

I think it can maybe make sense for the software to treat them as different. But "you don't have any alarms" when I ask about my alarms but I had actually set a timer is an unacceptable response, in my opinion. Both kinds of things encode "make a noise a time in the future I specified." Differences beyond that are minor.