Yes, that makes sense to me. Black and white film is a very flexible medium - you can make very different prints from the same negative, it has lots of latitude to play with the contrast, dodge/burn, etc, so there’s not necessarily a single “best” interpretation.

And as you point out, at capture time you can use color filters to affect the image; processing too can lead to fairly different results based on what developer you use.

This is in contrast to color film, which I find to be much more rigid and narrow in how it’s meant to look and be processed; one could argue there’s much less range for interpretation from negative to final image (especially so with slide film, which completely falls apart if it’s ever so slightly over/under exposed).