I'm looking for a bit of clarification. I'm trying to understand and help explain arbitrary state transition vs protocol-level state transition. I made a (very simple) graphic based on info from this interaction on StackExchange (What does it mean that Solidity can encode arbitrary state transition functions?) and I'm hoping someone can confirm that my graphic does in fact explain the concept in a clear and accurate manor. 
Any help is appreciated! (Graph created using excalidraw)
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Ethereum's whitepaper is a comparison with Bitcoin where the "state" transitions are carried by a script language which isn't Turing complete so it can't create complex algorithms. Something missing in the graph is that Ethereum has a "World State" that where contracts update their state. Perhaps the closest is the second graph from this answer https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/a/757, where state root is the root of the "World State" at each block. – Ismael Aug 31 '21 at 05:58