This reminds me of Chris Tarnovski criticizing some microcontroller designs because the buses run all over the die, rather than being gated by a central multipl

This reminds me of Chris Tarnovski criticizing some microcontroller designs because the buses run all over the die, rather than being gated by a central multiplexor, and that much capacitance and logic inputs to drive being limiting the maximum clock speed. Relevant? I'm not a cpu expert.