Even if that were so, things are moving away from VLIW. E.g. AMD switched from VLIW to a more standard load-store SIMT approach a couple years ago, and even tho

Even if that were so, things are moving away from VLIW. E.g. AMD switched from VLIW to a more standard load-store SIMT approach a couple years ago, and even though it's more complex for the GPU, it increased system efficiency (esp. for workloads that their compiler was not well tuned for).