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I was distracted a bit by his screen capture. Is he... editing an audio file sample by sample? Is that a thing people do?

I assumed people worked from samples, recordings, and primitives like sine/square waves and noise, and applied filters...

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It's not a common operation, but this is a massively important feature to have. Occasionally I clean up audio that's in such horrible condition I have to edit individual samples because there are no plugins that can do it automatically. For example: a pop or skip on a vinyl record. Sometimes you have to remove those by hand.

In music production, mixers/producers will sometimes zoom down to sample-scale and draw out a click or a pop from a bad edit that wasn't properly smoothed. Otherwise, no. I wouldn't say it's common for audio editors to draw samples.

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