Best I can tell, it's largely the opposite: "transpiler" is mainly used to sound cool and build hype, traditional compiler folks tend to fall on your side and p

Best I can tell, it's largely the opposite: "transpiler" is mainly used to sound cool and build hype, traditional compiler folks tend to fall on your side and prefer to call them all "compilers". (The usual term of disparagement in this context is "preprocessor"!)