I disagree. Obfuscation is essentially the same as a separate compilation and can do as little or as much to distort the original logic as compiling to a lower level language.

E.g. an obfuscator could make all method calls into one identical named overload, while a compiler could emit appropriately named subroutines. The compiler preserves the logic better in this case.

Minimization is something different, but minimizers do not attempt obfuscation, it is more of a side effect of their goal.