I would argue that yes it does. You're right, maybe not as much complexity, but enough to make arguments for their being simpler look thin. Also, I don't know

I would argue that yes it does. You're right, maybe not as much complexity, but enough to make arguments for their being simpler look thin. Also, I don't know how the 500 ARMv8 instructions was reached. If there are 500 instructions in the entire ISA, that's an unfair comparison, since there might be functionality in there not directly present in RISC-V. E.g. SIMD functionality. Ofcourse fewer instructions to implement are fewer instructions to verify, but I disagreed with how simple the article made it sound.