Not a good comparison - a persimmon wood and an allow wood are the same woods just make of different stuff.Still the same club, same degree, same face etc. Acompound is wheels, pulley, cables, sights, letoff, triggers, drop away rests ... compounds don't even categorize as a bow by definition.
I may be ignorant to archery history.....but if you'll check the modern "3-wood" average yardages against their "old" persimmon counterparts......you'll find that the "same" designation don't fit. You can attribute a lot of that to the ball, but.....the numbers don't lie.
Saying a modern compound isn't"archery" is......well....it's just a matter of how deep your head's in the sand....and not whether it it's there, or not.
Is the modern assault rifle a "gun"?