Oddly enough, these are among the least concerning, least permanent aspects of the specs; not sure why they bother you so much either. It's frankly not a whole

Oddly enough, these are among the least concerning, least permanent aspects of the specs; not sure why they bother you so much either. It's frankly not a whole lot different from MIPS, except lacking exposed delay slots, and a number of instructions that turn out not to have been used much. My biggest issue is with how many instruction bytes it can take to load an arbitrary 64-bit immediate without an IC, but that can be gotten around by using an IC.