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[–] RedFrank24@piefed.social 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Only if you're going by the strict UML definition of composition, which doesn't really apply here, since the industry has moved on a bit since UML was king.

Either way, you can use DI to do composition in the strictest UML way, provided every single dependency is transient and creates a new instance every single time. Even then though, when most devs talk about composition, they aren't referring to the strict UML definition.