It would be more reasonable to say that classic RISC has some features in common with the microcode CISC designs had long used and, in the case of x86, still us

It would be more reasonable to say that classic RISC has some features in common with the microcode CISC designs had long used and, in the case of x86, still use. RISC designs like MIPS even exposed things like the various delay slots which, in a CISC design, would have been hidden by microcode.