The problem is that those criticisms are almost always wrong. For instance the ARM proponents criticise RISC-V for having long instruction encodings and then th

The problem is that those criticisms are almost always wrong. For instance the ARM proponents criticise RISC-V for having long instruction encodings and then they quote a few carefully cherry picked examples. But if you look at actual compiled programs RISC-V is nearly always 10-15% smaller than ARM.