> I suppose this all goes to reinforce a point I’ve made several times before, which is that ‘declarativity’ is more of a continuum rather than a state.

To me, it seems clear that editing an existing body of code is always imperative— you're literally manipulating the state of the text iteratively, no matter what you do! Code generation can be declarative. But you're still going to imperatively edit your declarations somewhere, in that case. :-P