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Sorry, I didn't see this two weeks ago. The upshot of distinguishing between the types of bikes would, quite simply, be that some fires will be caused by legit e-bikes and some (as you say, likely most) by batteries in illegal e-mopeds—and some in e-scooters, of course. It's just that in the first reporting it will probably be unknown what type of vehicle/battery it was exactly, in some cases it may not even be possible to tell what type of bike it was, and there will be contraptions that might satisfy the legal tech specs despite being put together from rubbish components.
I personally think that question is for public regulation and that it's much more important to steer more people towards unmotorised bikes, i.e. people who would be better off riding one of those. Already you encounter people whose assumption is that the default for bicycles is that they should be motorised. This is not a good thing.
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Oliver Schick
We know the difference between legit e-bikes and home made e-motorcycles but most people don’t. Journalists could make more effort to make that distinction but most can’t be bothered.