You are correct that with a lot of effort you can get a compiler to emit VLIW instructions that can claw back some of these problems and have some, but not all,

You are correct that with a lot of effort you can get a compiler to emit VLIW instructions that can claw back some of these problems and have some, but not all, of the information you have available to the processor core at runtime which can make things slightly smarter. And with all of that effort which involves changing software distribution models, jettisoning energy efficient flexible heterogenous architectures, and abandoning SMT, you might be able to get something close to performing as well as… what we already have today without VLIW. Not sure why anyone thinks that’s an argument for doing it.