It's not the only distinction I recognize, its the distinction you think matters here and that seams to be the basis for our disagreement.

This is the term (vtable, VMT) I got told in lectures to describe this pattern, you have yet not pointed me to a different term that you would recognize to be this, so in lack of a better term I will continue to use this.

As to why I think this distinction does not matter here, is because I perceive the compiler to be a tool that generates code which is controlled by the programmer. Thus the programmer in both cases creates codes with the same paradigm, they only differ in the tools used. We generally don't name things differently depending on which tools are used in the creation, except if they are created with a different intention.