I don't know what the design goals of RISC-V were, but I would guess performance is not the key goal or at least not the only goal. It makes more sense that eas

I don't know what the design goals of RISC-V were, but I would guess performance is not the key goal or at least not the only goal. It makes more sense that ease of implementation is a more important goal, if they want to make adoption easy. That's another argument for favoring RISC over CISC.