I think it's pretty clear to anyone with experience in the field that the notion of compilers, interpreters, transpilers are porous and even more so when you had the concept of VM ("Let's interpret a compiled artefact") and JIT ("I put a compiler in your interpreter. Don't worry, it all runs on the same VM in the end.")

These things live on a continuum. Still, I think the different worlds are useful. They put forward different concepts and ideas. It helps framing things.