Yeah, it’s a simplification. You need to have something to make statements about. But that doesn’t change that what computers are doing is something completely

Yeah, it’s a simplification. You need to have something to make statements about. But that doesn’t change that what computers are doing is something completely different than what mathematics as a discipline cares about. It’s the same difference as the difference between high school math and mathematics as a discipline. Just because we use the same name for both doesn’t mean they are one.