Just read something that said it's a lie to say transpilers aren't compilers by claiming compilers compile to machine code because compilers also compile to bytecode and like

I get where they were coming from but. Bytecode is machine code for all intents and purposes. It's just fantasy machine code. This argument feels like splitting hairs

Note that I do think transpilers are a subset of compilers (transpilers compile to something human readable, compilers in general don't)