People should zoom right out and think about the whole RISC-V project.
When our phones have billions of transistors, are we seriously supposed to believe that RISC philosophy still matters.
Personally I greatly prefer the user programmable 68000 family of processors.
The marketing of RISC-V is perhaps the most impressive thing about it.
Each to their own, I can see why giant SSD manufacturers want to use a license free design and share the cost of compiler development.
Is there really anything else?