RISC did change everything - the primary computing device of users are ARM-based phones. Dependent on x86 servers in the cloud for much though. Of course it's

RISC did change everything - the primary computing device of users are ARM-based phones. Dependent on x86 servers in the cloud for much though. Of course it's arguable how RISCy ARM really is, but x86 is the only CISC left for non-embedded computing anymore, and really A) it's a hybrid with SIMD and a lot of recent instructions, and B) I the ISA is essentially internally virtualized atop a microarchitecture which operates vastly differently than the ISA - all the wacky stuff done for performance is tucked away there until it rears its head with Spectre-like issues and such. Further, couldn't it be said that RISC changed Intel? - one wonders what Intel would have done had RISC not been making gains in the 90's against Intel.