RISC-V is just an ISA but the foundation and all the people who have bought in have given some political power and dynamism into the movement that it didn't hav

RISC-V is just an ISA but the foundation and all the people who have bought in have given some political power and dynamism into the movement that it didn't have before. Just the amount of people meeting and starting to work together on some of these issue makes RISC-V valuable. Its adoption in research will also lead to some nice stuff (and already has). So I agree with your core point but we when talking about RISC-V we should think about it more broadly.